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This 3 page paper discusses the human rights violations toward women in the early 1900's in Brazil. Sueann's book, In Defense of Honor, is used to provide examples of the abuses. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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women were being victimized in a way which symbolically stood for the changes and the struggle that Brazil, herself, was going through at the time. Sueann Caulfields book, In Defense
of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-century Brazil, marks the desire of Brazil to present a modernized face to the world, while internally, both politically and socially,
women were suffering. Using Rio de Janeiro as her example city, Caulfield examines this move toward modernity through the avenues of gender, equality, family, and sexuality, among others and uses
the idiom of honor as the recurring motif. Of particular interest is the focus she places on womens rights and the changing views of women through this time period.
The idea of virginity and honor were closely held throughout the early part of the countrys formation. This idea seems to have been continued throughout this newer modern age, but
change was coming, Caulfield shows. In particular she centers a good deal of the book around the legal entanglements of the carioca (citizens of Rio de Janeiro) toward the young
single women in the region. Through the trials and the changing legal processes as women are accorded more rights, the development of Brazil as a whole is shown. In
fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had supposedly raped or committed an act of dishonor against
an unmarried single woman. Many jurists, she reports, protested the examinations of the women, claiming that they were humiliating and degrading to the women, moreso than the accusations against the
men. This obsession with the maiden head Caulfield uses as a unifying element in a metaphorical sense to illustrate the obsession of the country to keep up appearances to the
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