Saffioti observes the place that women occupy in this development. The analysis aims to show that "relationships between the sexes and, consequently, the position mobile phone number list of women in the family and in society in general, constitute part of a broader system of domination"32. In this, and in other texts of the time, " the woman" is spoken of in the singular. Fernandes also speaks of "the black", in the singular, although in the specific analyzes the heterogeneities and differentiations within the categories mobile phone number list woman and black appear.
Over the decades, it became plural, to make it clear that hierarchies, relations of domination and inequalities exist not only between the categories of race and gender, but also within mobile phone number list them. Saffioti traces the origin of the myths and preconceptions that justify the exclusion of women from certain tasks and their segregation into traditional roles and occupations recognized as female. She finds that origin in the way power was organized and distributed in the Brazilian mobile phone number list slave society. She discusses the position of male and female slaves and the inconsistencies in the race relations of slavery.
The black slaves had their function in the productive system, and they also had a sexual role, whose product –the mulatto– became the center of social and cultural mobile phone number list tensions. What is the effect of capitalist development on the position of women? The effects analyzed are not homogeneous for all women. In the world of productive organization, according to Saffioti, the development of capitalism marginalizes women. And it does so in a complex way. The advent of capitalism represents a mobile phone number list diminution of the directly productive functions hitherto carried out by women.