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Sexual division of labor: separating production from the family's reproductive space

  • Ana Elizabeth Santos Alves
  • Ana Elizabeth Santos Alves

    Professora do Departamento de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil. Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)



Abstract

This essay aims at examining the sexual division of labor around the dissociation of productive work from the family reproduction space that took place during the installation and development of capitalism in Brazil, particularly based on reflections on the historical context between the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. This shows our intent to decharacterize analyses of the naturalistic ideology that legitimizes the principles of separation of the work of men and that of women. Therefore, we try to explain this dissociation based on changes that have taken place in the family as a productive base, as well as the relationship between production and reproduction in the rural unit (traditional). We will try to report how some of the changes took place in traditional family practices, by separating productive activities from everyday life at home. This confirmed the genesis of the urbanindustrial society, in the face of consonance between traditional units and modern production units.

Keywords

sexual division of labor,
family,
Brazilian society,
capitalism

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