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...Patricia de Santana Pinho Abstract This article examines representations of domestic workers in Brazilian “common sense,” in the Gramscian use of the term. It argues that the dominant trope of maids' bodies as “dirty,” and yet the “most suitable” to carry out the job of cleaning, is produced...

... of the other mother. That fifteen-year-old girl was my mother. For months after the burial, the girls exchanged sad glances and secret nods, but these were placebos, a pretend cure for an irreparable injury. Eventually the young maid disappeared. Her baby was dead, but the hegemony overcasting her life...

... You have your listlessness Its dull ache Youhave your fine breasts Your hard maids You have your strong presences Better than absences Better than abscesses You have your coital fire Behold, Great Mother Your black rope of hair Behold: breasts, crotch Scrotum, harbor, sun Your poems will write...

... for themselves and make money? The unmarried. Who are our best female authors? Old maids If there are women we should respect and love, they are these" (239). In related works, such as Catharine Sedgwick's two-volume Marriedor Single?(1857), the rhetorical question embedded in the novel's title is less about...

...? As a reminder that he could never love me, an old maid, Mary Tabbs? That master's mulatto bastard was, no man, and no better than my black husband. His words like cinnamon candy I walktoo wideto haveanold husband My hips round enou9hto makea meekmanout of Lucifer.Annie was still a girl when Yella Gaines...

... sense" framework argues that the trope of maids' bodies, used to cleanse but nonetheless perceived as dirty, is a reflection of cultural attitudes toward the poor, manual labor, and aversion to the black body. In his essay, Bui complicates the conventional reading of the maquiladora factory workers...

... becomes entangled with the more nuanced problematic of representing different versions of the Dominican diasporic condition that is, the maid in another story. This could be considered the performative rite of memory: a performance (invention) that allows the writer to touch base with real memories...

.... . . . I’m very, very, lonely.” Enriqueta tells her that her husband is expecting friends that evening, insinuating that she’s not welcome. Doña María insists that she can help Enriqueta prepare for the festivities, but then sees that she already has plenty of kitchen staff, as a maid serves her a bowl...

... the [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2006, vol. 7, no. r, pp. v-vii] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. V representational roles of the "generic Latina" on the public stage as maids, nannies, and prostitutes. To rectify the trend, Saracho and Paz founded Teatro Luna:the first and only all-Latina theater...

... to this Black woman described on the card atop my hotel bureau as "Olive the Maid"? "Olive" is older than I am and I may smoke a cigarette while she changes the sheets on my bed. Whose rights? Whose freedom? Whose desire? And why would she give a shit about mine unless I do something, for real, about hers...

... and yet, my father refused to find a husband for me. At twenty, I was an old maid. “Who will cook and clean if she leaves?” he reasoned. But they said, “She’s got two ripe oranges.” My brother, though, grew roots among the bamboo. His baby bones that would have hardly been bones when he was buried...

... a kitchen maid could rule the state,” to quote Vladimir Lenin). To complicate these assertions, see Klots 2018 . 3 The project was not gender-neutral either. For a discussion of masculine comradeship in the early Soviet Union, see Borenstein ( 2001 ). On the state-sponsored construction of gender...

..., even his sexual activities: his liaison with Hsing-hsing and his mother's maids occurred only under his mother's tacit approval and encouragement. Under such circumstances, consummating his relationship with a virgin is critical to the validation of his manhood. Marrying Mulberry does not necessarily...

... to protect her and her home. The maid, Bernadina, admits to Gloria, "I can't go back to Mexico. I only have an uncle who lives in Coyoacan but he can't protect me from I was a maid to a rich family in Mexico City. Mypatronraped me and I " (Corpi 1999, 104). She breaks down, fearing that Gloria will report...

... maliciously maligned; she has been sexually molested and abused by the white colonizer; she has suffered the worst kind of economic exploitation, having been forced to serve as the white woman's maid and wet nurse for white offspring while her own children were, more often than not, starving and neglected...

... it in English.” “Like an old maid?” I asked. “Exactly. It’s a little bit more unfair for the women in the community and that goes even deeper as Women of Color in our community. There are things that I didn’t go through because of my light skin, that my dark-skinned friends went through...

.... Her mother was always working, first as a maid in a big house. Then as a salesgirl of cheap glass bangles and cotton petticoats and blouse pieces and bras and ladies’ panties in a small, cramped, hot shop that smelled of cotton and sweat. Rani used to do her homework there, in her mother’s chair...

... milieus. Remarkably, Kine has a maid, Adele, and an expansive home that she shares with her disabled mother, Mammy, amid portraits of Pan-African heroes such as Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara, and Amilcar Cabral. These portraits, undoubtedly, encourage the reading of Kine's...

... TeatroLunain a lot of ways. I think it was just instinct. We knew something was missing. We didn't know we had stories to tell, but we did. We are obviously not getting what we need from the theater community right now. The roles you get to perform are maids or prostitutes or nannies. So we began these circle...

... and maids arose from sleep, one by one, and gathered silently in the outer courtyard, scared. The police had come to inform them. There were three or four trucks waiting. They might be able to survive if they could cross the precincts of Lahore that night. If not, there was little the police could do. "Take...