Inventing the "Mulher Paulista": Politics, rebellion, and the gendering of Brazilian regional identities

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Weinstein, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b American Historical Association

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EID: 43249166890     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2006.0028     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. On the gendering of national identity, see Nira Yuval-Davis and Floya Anthias, eds., Woman-Nation-State (London: Macmillan, 1989);
2. and Brackette F. Williams, ed., Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality (New York: Routledge, 1996).
3. For a pathbreaking study of gender and the French Revolution, see Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988);
4. For overviews of women's role in the movement, see J. Rodrigues, A Mulher Paulista no Movimento Pro-Constituinte (São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunaes, 1933);
5. and Adalzira Bittencourt, A Mulher Paulista na História (Rio de Janeiro: Livros de Portugal, 1954), 309-11.
6. Paulo Duarte, Que é que há? .Pequena História de uma Grande Pirataria, 3rd ed. (São Paulo, 1931), 284-85.
7. Karin Rosemblatt, Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000);
8. Prasenjit Duara, "Historicizing National Identity, or Who Imagines What and When," in Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Becoming National (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 151-74.
9. On the bandeiras and regional identity see Antonio Celso Ferreira, A Epopéia Bandeirante: Letrados, Instituições, Invenção Histórica, 1870-1940 (São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2002).
10. On women and the bandeiras see Bittencourt, A Mulher Paulista na História, 37-80;
11. and Eurico de Góes, "Heroínas Paulistas," radio address, 18 August 1932, in Doc. 2948, Pasta 3, Coleção Revolução de 32, Museu Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
12. Del Picchia, A Revolução Paulista, 17.
13. J. Rodrigues, A Mulher Paulista no Movimento Pro-Constituinte, 58.
14. On women in the workforce, see Susan K. Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 129-63.
15. Diário de São Paulo, Edição Comemorativa, 25 January 1954 (Modernismo), 4.
16. "Eu Sou a Mulher Paulista," radio address by Duke Amara, reprinted in Folha da Noite, 14 July 1932, 2.
17. Murilo de Carvalho, A Formação das Almas, chap. 4. As it turns out, Marianne's image was not universally rejected in Brazil.
18. See Geraldo Mártires Coelho, "Uma Aparição Tardia: A Presença de Marianne no Pará," in História: fronteiras. Anais do XX Simpósio Nacional de História (São Paulo: Humanitas / FFLCH / USP/ ANPUH, 1999), 2:983-93.
19. On women's growing presence in public life, and the anxiety it provoked, see Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy, 12-37.
20. "Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 20 (1991), 380.
21. For the earlier period see Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995);
22. and Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (New York: Routledge, 1995).
23. On the racialization of regional identity see Barbara Weinstein, "Racializing Regional Difference: São Paulo vs. Brazil, 1932," in Nancy Appelbaum, Anne Macpherson, and Karin Rosemblatt, eds., Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 237-62.
24. Nogueira Filho, A Guerra Cívica, 2:169, 199.
25. A Cigarru (São Paulo), no. 424, July 1932, 1.
26. Album de Família 1932.
27. "Soldado que era mulher," Jornal das Trincheiras, 8 September 1932, 4;
28. O Diário Nacional, 18 September 1932, 4.
29. Diário de S. Paulo, Edição Comemorativa do Quarto Centenário, Caderno de História, 25 January 1954, 12.
30. Nogueira Filho, A Guerra Cívica, 2:168-69.
31. Góes, "Heroínas Paulistas."
32. Menotti, A Revolução Paulista, 139.
33. Schpun, "Carlota Pereira de Queiroz."
34. "A Câmara Dedica Sessão à Comemoraçã o do 9 de Julho," Folha de São Paulo, 10 July 1962.
35. Sertório de Castro, Política es Mulher! Despite the post-'32 publication date, it is clear from the book's contents that it was written prior to the Constitutionalist Campaign. Still, the author did not feel compelled by intervening events to alter his arguments prior to publication.
36. De Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women, 14-15.