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CHAPTER TWO: FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Family and Friends
CHAPTER
I
n 2011, an earthquake struck Brazil. This was no ordinary tremor, but a
seismic shift in the country’s political and cultural landscape. Dilma
Rousseff was
inaugurated
as Brazil’s first woman president. Never before
had a modern Brazilian woman reached such heights: her achievement
underscored the great strides women have made in Brazil and the shifting
dynamics of the Brazilian family.
When Rousseff was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, most Brazilian fam-
ilies were traditional, comprised of a wife, a husband, and children. The husband
was financially responsible for the family, while the wife took care of all the domes-
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