Caipora (Organization)

Brazilian women are fighting back against machismo and racism, and against exploitation in factory and farm, in a myriad of grassroots organisations. This mosaic of articles, poems and interviews paints a vivid picture of life for women in Brazil's shanty towns and peasant villages.

This book reveals the appalling conditions faced by most women in a country classified by the World Bank as the most unequal in the world. It also shows the varied forms of resistance and organisation which have developed over the last twenty years.