Abstract
In her analysis of Parque Industrial, Gormley tactfully utilizes literature as historical evidence, allowing the reader to more fully examine the richness of the relationship between gender, violence, and space through the lens of everyday. In doing so she affords the reader an opportunity to examine the lives of women who did not operate within their prescribed spaces and roles within the Brazilian context. This work offers an in-depth look into the relationship between the narrative of modernity, constructed and disseminated by the First Vargas administration, and space(s) often defined as dangerous and violent, seeking to more fully understand if such everyday spaces can also be gendered and hold different experiences for women.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
(Lefebvre 132).
- 2.
The bibliography on the Vargas Era is extensive. Some of the more well-known works in English are Robert M. Levine’s The Vargas Regime: The Critical Years, 1934–1938 (New York: Columbia University Press 1970); Thomas Skidmore’s Politics in Brazil, 1930–1964: An Experiment in Democracy (New York and London: Oxford University Press 1967); Thomas Skidmore’s “Politics and Economic Policy Making in Authoritarian Brazil, 1937–1971,” in Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future, ed. Alfred Stepan (New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1973); and John Wirth’s The Politics of Brazilian Development: 1930–1954 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970). In Portuguese, see Angela Maria de Castro Gomes and Dulce Chaves Pandolfi, eds., Regionalismo e centralização política : partidos e Constituinte nos anos 30 (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Nova Fronteira 1980), and Lucia Lippi Oliveira, Mônica Pimenta Velloso, Angela Maria Castro Gomes, eds., Estado Novo: ideologia e poder (Rio de Janeiro: Zahar 1982).
- 3.
It is important to note that Soja relied heavily on Lefebvre’s work and is an important point of departure for his own work on developing the idea of Thirdspace . Soja was not dismissive of the work of Lefebvre but applauded the insight that was brought to bear on the analysis of space and human activity.
- 4.
This article cited was from the 1937 Constitution that was the ideological benchmark for the Estado Novo. Found in “O Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil” (CPDOC), Gustavo Capanema archive, roll 60, pp. 764–769.
- 5.
This was an important field of interest on behalf of the Brazilian state. See Suanne Caulfield’s In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2000).
References
Anthias, Floya, and Nira Yuval-Davis. 1989. Introduction. In Woman-Nation-State, ed. Nira Yuval-Davis, Floya Anthias, and Jo Campling, 1–15. London: Macmillan Press.
de Castro Gomes, Angela. 2003. O Primeiro Governo Vargas: Projeto político e educacional. In Educação no Brasil: História, cultura e política, ed. Ana Maria Magaldi, Claudia Alves, and José Gondra. São Paulo: Editora Universitária São Francisco.
Caulfield, Suanne. 2000. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
de Certeau, Michel. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1937 Constitution. 1937. In O Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (CPDOC) Gustavo Capanema archive, roll 60, 764–769.
Fausto, Boris. 1999. A Concise History of Brazil. Trans. Arthur Brakel. London: Cambridge University Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.
Gabara, Esther. 2008. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil. Durham and New York: Duke University Press.
Garber, Marjorie. 1997. Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge.
Hahner, June. 1986. Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870–1920. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Lauderdale-Graham, Sandra. 1988. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in 19th Century Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lefebvre, Henri. 1991. Critique of Everyday Life. Vol. 1. Trans. John Moore with Preface by Michel Trebitsch. London: Verso.
McClintock, Anne. 1986. No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender, and Race. In Becoming National: A Reader, ed. Geoff Eley and Ronald Griger Suz, 256–284. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McDowell, Linda. 1997. Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas. 2017, (forthcoming). Spatial Justice in a World of Violence. In Spaces of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations, ed. Chris Butler and Edward Mussawir. New York: Routledge.
Pile, Steve. 1996. The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity. New York: Routledge.
Reid Andrews, George. 1996. Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900–90: An American Counterpoint. Journal of Contemporary History 31 (3 July): 483–507.
Soja, Edward W. 1996. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Anglese and Other Real-And-Imagined Places. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Gormley, M.E. (2018). Gender, Space, and the Violence of the Everyday in Parque Industrial . In: Botero, B. (eds) Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68158-0_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68158-0_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-68157-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-68158-0
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)