Daily Lives of Women in Minas Gerais
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Introduction:
Country people were by no means isolated. As the cities expanded outward, the separation between country and city lessened. Maria Luiza Melo Carvalho, a documentary photographer, interviewed and photographed women at work in Brazil. The seven women quoted here lived in the region around the rapidly expanding city of Belo Horizonte. None of these women fit the traditional description of a country person.
Read the attached document and answer the following questions:
Why does Ninoce prefer gold mining to piece work in the factories?
Why were women drawn to crafts?
Why is there so little mention of men in the stories of these Brazilian women?
