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Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia • Rome • Tokyo TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 tupress.temple.edu Copyright © 2021 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education All rights reserved Published 2021 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Santos, Pedro A. G. dos, 1980– author. | Jalalzai, Farida, author. Title: Women’s empowerment and disempowerment in Brazil : the rise and fall of President Dilma Rousseff / Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai. Description: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Women’s Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, shaped women’s political empowerment in her country and what the implications of these findings may be for women’s executive leadership globally”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020019232 (print) | LCCN 2020019233 (ebook) | ISBN 9781439916179 (cloth) | ISBN 9781439916186 (paperback) | ISBN 9781439916193 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Rousseff, Dilma. | Women presidents—Brazil. | Women—Political activity—Brazil. | Power (Social sciences)—Brazil. Classification: LCC HQ1236.5.B6 S37 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1236.5.B6 (ebook) | DDC 320.082/0981—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019232 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019233 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to the memory of Oraida Maria Machado de Abreu. You were the embodiment of women’s empowerment. Dedicated also to the memory of Dr. Abdur Raheem Jalalzai, whose love, encouragement, and support empowered his five daughters to become the women they are today. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 From Guerrilheira to Presidenta: The Rise of Dilma Rousseff 16 2 Tchau, Querida: Empowerment, Disempowerment, and Misogyny in the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff 36 3 Empowering Women through Appointment 58 4 Losing It All: Policymaking and Women’s Empowerment under Rousseff and Beyond 85 5 The First Presidenta: Empowering through Symbolizing 112 Conclusion 135 Appendix 145 References 165 Index 195 Acknowledgments T his book is a culmination of many years of research from both auth- ors, research that converged in 2010 with the election of Dilma Rousseff. Pedro dos Santos was starting his fieldwork on what would end up becoming his dissertation on gender quotas in Brazil. While in the country, he was able to see the presidential campaign that led to the election of Dilma Rousseff, sparking his interest in better understanding the role of a woman president in the representation of women as a group. Farida Jalalzai’s work on women in the executive office led her to study the rise of women presidents in Latin America, as Rousseff was, at that time, the newest woman president to break the executive glass ceiling in the region. Along with Chile, Costa Rica, and Argentina, Brazil was one of four Latin American countries to have a woman president in power. Brazil having its first woman break the executive glass ceiling—one who had no family links to power as women traditionally did—at a time when Brazil enjoyed a strong economy and growing visibility on the world stage proved especially compelling. Rous- seff came to power in a highly masculine space where few women held elected positions and where violence against women was entrenched. Not only did we want to know more about the story of her rise, but we also became even more concerned with the ways her presidency mattered for women in the country. During our earlier collaborations, we focused on gendered media coverage regarding Rousseff but also on ways that Rousseff offered women represen- tational benefits, particularly policy representation for women as well as en- hancing women’s influence in appointed positions such as cabinet ministers.
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