“The difference is only color and the money i didn’t have”: black women and the oppressions that intersect in paid domestic work
This article aims to present a discussion on the trajectories of black women in paid domestic work from an intersectional perspective. The study was conducted through ethnography, using participant observation and interviews as methodological fieldwork strategies. The reflection reveals the lived ex...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2025
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/20218 |
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| Summary: | This article aims to present a discussion on the trajectories of black women in paid domestic work from an intersectional perspective. The study was conducted through ethnography, using participant observation and interviews as methodological fieldwork strategies. The reflection reveals the lived experience of a domestic worker, reflecting countless other trajectories of black Brazilian women, based on their daily lives and work history, in a country that was late to recognize domestic workers as part of the working-class and entitled to rights. The results suggest that, even with the changes achieved within a decade of the Domestic Workers Constitutional Amendment (BRASIL, 2013), stigma and invisibility persist in a dimension of inequalities that intersect and overlap with disparities of race, gender, class, and generation. The final considerations explain that the articulation of domestic workers with the black, union and feminist movements instituted a decolonial project, through political solidarity among black women who, when integrated into group action in domestic workers' unions, are driven to fight for the realization of rights and emancipation. |
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| ISSN: | 2595-315X |
