Abstract
The vision of the patriarchal “Big House” as a model of the Brazilian family is fading in light of new research. In Iguape, a rural parish in the state of Bahia, one-third of the households were female-headed in a population in which the non-slave component comprised 33.8 percent. The number of female-headed households in this sugar zone increases as one descends both the occupational and the racial hierarchies. The living arrangements of the free/freed population, especially the young and the elderly, show that 43.5 percent lived under the roof of a female-headed household. These findings are illuminating in the context of other studies that propose that female-headed households and the patterns of gender segregation are common to Brazil, as well as, perhaps, to all of Latin America.
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