Modo de vida, imaginário social e cotidiano
Paulistanos e Paulistanas: rapports de genre à São Paulo dans les années vingt
The mainly objectif of this thesis was to analyze the social relations between men and women in Sao Paulo (Brazil) during the years 1920-1929. That was a period of significant urban transformations, related to the rapid increase of the population. The violent process of urbanization touched gender relations in a very special way. The first part of the thesis lies on family relations, notably conjugal ones, and marriate strategies. There have been analyzed inequalities between spouses as well as those between young girls and their pretenders. And that in a historical moment when individualism and love are prazised by the most different voices in the local society. The second part of the thesis regards to the way women leave private space to get in the public city life. I discuss the normative discourses trying to keep women away from the public sphere, and the opening possibilities to a larger participation (charity, education, work and politics). The last part of the thesis is about physical presentation and corporal behaviour of men and women in the urban space. I try to explain how gendered codes are created to justifie different body representations and specific urban citizenship for men and women.