Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999 [electronic resource] /
by Sônia Roncador.
- 252 p. online resource.
Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.