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Intimate Ironies - Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil (Paperback, First)
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Intimate Ironies - Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil (Paperback, First)
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The middle-class condition, seen during the twentieth century as
both the symbol of progress and order and the means to achieve it,
has largely evaded historical analysis. Blending historical methods
and anthropological sensibilities, "Intimate Ironies" relates the
everyday lives of an emergent white-collar middle class to
Brazilian national politics in the twentieth century. Focusing on
the period between 1920 and 1950, the author looks beyond
ideologies to reveal how, amidst the turmoil of modernization,
middle-class men and women strained to wrest order from the ordeal
of change.
Drawing on legacies of hierarchy and patronage and orienting
themselves in very concrete ways to the middle-class ideal of
Western modernity, these Brazilian men and women recast the meaning
of work and home to set themselves apart from those below them and
to project a sense of moral superiority over those above. The
author shows how anxieties growing out of this ambivalent position
deeply conditioned their role in national politics, from
experiments groping toward middle-class populism during the 1930's
to the moralistic distrust of institutional politics that
characterized the middle-class political outlook after World War
II.
"Intimate Ironies" represents a novel approach to the history of
urban middle classes in the twentieth century. Most studies of the
middle class have concentrated on culture or political behavior;
rarely have the two been brought together. By linking everyday life
and politics, the book reinvigorates the study of political history
and class in modern Latin American societies, in the process
complementing recent studies of organized labor and the industrial
elites in Latin America. And by telling an unorthodox story of the
middle class, the author challenges the very possibility of a
linear, progressive narrative of social development.
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