Amanda Alexandre Professor Deborah Taylor Intro to Women’s Studies 17 April 2016 Annotated Bibliography CNN. “Prostitution in Brazil.” Online video clip. YouTube. 08 Dec. 2008. Web. 15 Apr. 2016. This video illustrates the legal sex industry established in Brazil. It starts off showing a prostitution advocate, Gabriele Leite, handing out condoms to the prostitutes in the streets in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most popular red light districts. She talks to the women about sex and recognizing their rights. She explains how her advocacy group encourages the use of condoms to women and their clients to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and decrease the prevalence on women. One women responds saying some poor girls who are desperate for money will have …show more content…
As Latin America’s largest nation, Brazil was one of the most unequal places in a state of social injustice in n the 1980s to 1990s. During this time, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in Brazil moved the government from dictatorship to a democracy efforts to embrace structural reforms that brought hyperinflation under control. But the majority of the population remained in poverty while others prospered. In the early 2000s, about a third of Brazil’s population was beneath the international poverty line surviving on $2 a day, and about 15 percent living on less than $1.25 a day. This article underlines the positive efforts of the next, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration fighting poverty in a revolutionary way. One of his efforts, the Bolsa Família (Family Grant), was to simply handed out money launching cash-giveaway programs for the poor. They distributed goods with huge food programs such as Cardoso. The Bolsa Família later realized that selling off everything had left a vast amount of citizens stranded and too poor to participate in expanding market economies. They amended the grant by making assistance qualifications easier. “Any family that can prove they earn less $42 per person per month they would be eligible for payments”. They included conditions that participants would have to meet such as requiring their children to attend …show more content…
Widows told her about their husband’s pension that provided their only income and how they would lose these if they remarried because the law only allowed one divorce per lifetime. Pregnant women’s rights were limited with lack of protection by minimum wage laws and unspecific work weeks. Employers would refuse to grant maternity leaves although guaranteed by law to registered women workers. Some black women spoke on their restricted job opportunities and experience of racial prejudice in employment even though it is prohibited by law. They feared police and the denial of due process when arrested. Abortions were illegal except to save a mother’s life or a pregnancy resulting from rape. Prostitutes spoke about police harassment even though prostitution is legal in Brazil. Wages were and equal for women forced them to depend on the government and its economy. The free public school system was also inadequate, making it difficult for mother to find places for their children. These women grew up practicing for the husband to be defined as the legal head of household and that a women’s place was in the home without an independent income. Poverty plays an important factor in the social aspect. Brazil’s Constitution of 1934 granted women