Lavadeiras na cidade: trabalho, cotidiano e doenças em Fortaleza (1900 – 1930)

A practice of washing clothes is one of the different ways of poor women in the city of Fortaleza. In a period of disease, between 1880 - 1930, contact with contaminated parts was considered a vector of disease, between central and suburban areas of the city. The aim of our investigation is to understand the relationship between the washing work practices, the daily routine of illnesses and a condition of subordination existing in the experience of poor women. The research was carried out from hemerographic sources, such as Jornal do Ceara: Political, Commercial and News; Jornal O Ceara and Jornal a Manha, obtained in the period, as well as theoretical, historiographical and methodological productions on the theme.