Patriarchy is defined as being a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family. The book Caetana Says No is about two women who are from two different parts of the caste system but both are dealing with patriarchy. Because of there social standings there experiences are different. Both of there stories take place in Brazil one is young the other old. Although both women are under patriarchs the affects differ. In Caetana’s story she rebels against her master the Catholic Church and the institution of marriage, while Inacia relationship with patriarchy is harmonious. Patronage relationships are not only downward granting of favors but a reciprocal upward pledge of service, deference, obedience, and loyalty. Pg. 49
Caetana was a 17 year old slave girl when her master decided she must marry. Captain Tolosa (Caetana master) had decided that she would marry because “by no means did he wish to have in his house, and even less in its interior, a single slave woman to serve his daughters.”pg 50. She refused he offered her someone else (Normally in patriarchy males are higher on the hierarchy scale but because we are dealing with slavery it …show more content…
Inacia chose her favorite slaves by granting some their freedom and withholding freedom from others by doing this she created a hierarchy among her slaves. Although the book points out that in Brazil there is an absence of ideology that is explicitly base on race it couldn’t have been a coincidence that she freed only the Brazilian-born, while leaving the Africans, nearly all men, enslaved. This wasn’t the first time that someone that would be considered the bottom of the social hierarchy would also implement patriarchy. For example through the Catholic practices of god parenthood the slaves created a flexible but durable bonds of patronage that connected them across status, racial, and gender
Caetana was a 17 year old slave girl when her master decided she must marry. Captain Tolosa (Caetana master) had decided that she would marry because “by no means did he wish to have in his house, and even less in its interior, a single slave woman to serve his daughters.”pg 50. She refused he offered her someone else (Normally in patriarchy males are higher on the hierarchy scale but because we are dealing with slavery it …show more content…
Inacia chose her favorite slaves by granting some their freedom and withholding freedom from others by doing this she created a hierarchy among her slaves. Although the book points out that in Brazil there is an absence of ideology that is explicitly base on race it couldn’t have been a coincidence that she freed only the Brazilian-born, while leaving the Africans, nearly all men, enslaved. This wasn’t the first time that someone that would be considered the bottom of the social hierarchy would also implement patriarchy. For example through the Catholic practices of god parenthood the slaves created a flexible but durable bonds of patronage that connected them across status, racial, and gender