To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt

This essay articulates Brazilian writer Adalzira Bittencourts feminism to the modernist movement in Brazil, drawing relationships between her modernist utopia which cannot be restricted to concerns about womens power and the national dream that projected the nation in the 1920s. It also articul...

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Main Author: Maria Bernardete Ramos
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2002-01-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9537
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To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
Revista Estudos Feministas
feminismo
modernismo
eugenia
nacionalismo
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title To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
title_short To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
title_full To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
title_fullStr To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
title_full_unstemmed To Brazil of my Dreams: Feminism and Modernism in the Utopia of Adalzira Bittencourt
title_sort to brazil of my dreams: feminism and modernism in the utopia of adalzira bittencourt
publisher Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series Revista Estudos Feministas
issn 0104-026X
1806-9584
publishDate 2002-01-01
description This essay articulates Brazilian writer Adalzira Bittencourts feminism to the modernist movement in Brazil, drawing relationships between her modernist utopia which cannot be restricted to concerns about womens power and the national dream that projected the nation in the 1920s. It also articulates Bittencourts brand of feminism in line with the Feminine Republican Partys ideology (in the 1920s and 1930s) and under the influence of eugenic laws or hygienic practices with the hegemonic discourses emphasizing maternity as womens mission in improving both the race and the nation.
topic feminismo
modernismo
eugenia
nacionalismo
url https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9537
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