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...scent of the devil is in the air, said the vicar of Miguel Pereira, as more than 100 women from all over Brazil gathered last week in this scenic, peaceful mountain town northwest of Rio de Janeiro. A smirking TV crew crowded into the local beauty shop, where business was booming. "No reason to get concerned over this conference," jeered a Miguel Pereira attorney. "It's mostly for women to give vent to their vanity." Sniffed a local garbage man: "If they want equality, let them collect garbage...
...event in Miguel Pereira was the first national women's congress held in Brazil, heartland of Latin American machismo, in 26 years. For all the fretting of the onlooking males, however, the meeting hardly foreshadowed a feminist revolution. For three days the women-white, mostly middleaged, middle class-hammered out resolutions on such matters as day-care centers and drugs, but that was about as far as they cared to go. Delegate Cilésia Furtado, 38, sighed that she was "turned off by most Women's Libbers in the U.S." It seems, she complained, "that women there...
Participation is no problem in the small (pop. 13,000) town of Miguel Pereira. Conference Leader de Almeida, a plump, fiftyish woman who radiates a sort of friendly simplicity, is not only the mother of four and wife of the local barber, but also the town's full-time mayor. Since her election in 1970, after four terms as a city councilwoman, Brazilians have been startled to discover that they have not only a woman mayor in their midst but an entire town that is run-and run well-by a female administration. That administration came about largely...
...Miguel Pereira notwithstanding, Brazil has not proved to be promising ground for the women's movement. True, it was one of the first Latin American countries to give women the vote (in 1932), but not until 1962 did the Congress strike down the old civil code provisions that put married women on an equal footing with prodigals, savages, minors and the insane. Antidiscrimination laws are on the books, but they are not enforced; Brazilian women are paid about 70% of what men are given for the same jobs...
Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She reached her peak in the early '50s, when she was known for her geometric patterns painted on sheets of fluted and rippled glass, which were then placed one on top of the other so that refracted light jabbed through in a dazzling spectrum...