Deconstructing ‘machismo’: Victims of ‘machismo Ideology’ Dominating in Brazil
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This paper is a discussion of machismo present massively in the Brazilian culture, as this culture is mainly patriarchal and chauvinist. This talk is drawn from research in progress on social representation of machismo in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by means of an ACL (Adjective Check List), and supervised at the Psychology Department of the University of Bologna. This discussion aims to argue that the study of gender in Brazil is long-overdue. I would also state that the points of view in this paper are personal and empirical visions.
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