Mulheres e poder no alto sertão da Bahia: a escrita epistolar de Celsina Teixeira Ladeia (1901 a 1927)

Detalhes bibliográficos
Ano de defesa: 2009
Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Marcos Profeta lattes
Orientador(a): Dias, Maria Odila Leite da Silva
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História
Departamento: História
País: BR
Palavras-chave em Português:
Palavras-chave em Inglês:
Área do conhecimento CNPq:
Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13194
Resumo: Through a critical view about social relations in gender at family and social environment of the Bahia High Hinterland, during the first three decades of the twentieth century, this research examines the multiple performances of Celsina Teixeira, it was captured throught her personal letters. Besides a purely biographical and personality analysis, this research studies the trajectory and the network of relationships built by this character in the period between 1901 and 1927. In order to execute this research, many documents that belong to Teixeira s family file was used. Those files consist of personal letters sent by Celsina Teixeira Ladeia, and anothers received by her, notebooks of expenses and inventories. The analysis of this abundant documentation dialogues with other studies realized about the Bahia High Hinterland, which permitted to the perception of the social, economic and cultural dynamism in that region during the period studied. The relationships network captured by the exchange of letters, allows the understanding of women's writing as part of a larger set of activities. In this point, not just writing letters, but mainly the actions described on them permitted to consider the powers built historically, within and out of a family context. The analysis of available sources allowed to detect significant instances of power which begin from the domestic environment, but they re not confined in it. In the mails, the political aspect of women actions, is felt in several situations: decisions about professional destinies, in the establishment of marriage strategies , in the tense relationship with domestic servants and the farmers workers, in the budget and financial investments organization, in the charitable activities, among others