Abstract
With the exile resulting from political persecution during Brazil's military dictatorship, some aspects related to daily life emerged for exiled subjects. Ignored aspects until then, have become an issue of discussion, conflicts and transformations. This article aims to analyze the narratives of Brazilian women about housework in exile. Based on theoretical studies that articulate gender and memory, we seek to understand the hierarchical relationships – constituted or broken – with regard to housework during the exile of Brazilians in France, during the 1970s. This (self) exclusion process, lived in a heterogeneous way, is the focus of countless memories that emerged during or after the period. Sources for this article are memoirs published in the book Memórias das Mulheres do Exílio (1980) and interviews based on the methodology of oral history.
Exile; Memories of exile; Gender relations; Housework; History of feminism