BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL PhD Dissertation IN THE BACKYARD OF THE FACTORY: GENDER, CLASS, POWER AND COMMUNITY IN BAHIA, BRAZIL By CECILIA MARIA BACELLAR SARDENBERG B.A., Illinois State University, 1977 M.A., Boston University, 1981 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1997