Homens judeus e relações de gênero na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This article analyses the gender relationship of Jewish immigrant men and their descendants from the male perspective in São Paulo City. I demonstrate that men and male are not an homogenous group, although one could consider male as the dominant sex. Men have different social relationships among them, and between them and women. I collected deep interviews with Jewish men who belong to three age cohorts, different social positions, and different national origin. I gathered the interviews through the “snow-ball” technique in 2004. I compare the men’s interviews to the women’s ones in order to verify similarities and differences between the two goups. Although this is a qualitative research, its results are compared to Brazilian demographic behavior patterns.