Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2013 Gender in the modernist city: shaping power relations and national identity with the construction of Brasilia Larissa Pires Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Latin American History Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Recommended Citation Pires, Larissa, "Gender in the modernist city: shaping power relations and national identity with the construction of Brasilia" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13193. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13193 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Gender in the modernist city: shaping power relations and national identity with the construction of Brasilia by Larissa Oliveira Pires A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: History of Technology and Science Program of Study Committee: Amy S. Bix, Major Professor David B. Wilson Kimberly E. Zarecor John W. Monroe Timothy S. Wolters Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2013 Copyright © Larissa Oliveira Pires, 2013. All rights reserved. ii DEDICATION To Gabriela and Nathan. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ii LIST OF FIGURES v LIST OF TABLES vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii ABSTRACT viii CHAPTER 1.