enclausurada / enclausuramento

English translation: confined/confinement

13:16 Apr 13, 2005

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History

Portuguese term or phrase: enclausurada / enclausuramento

CONTEXT
um ritual de iniciação tradicional em que a mulher adolescente é enclausurada após o primeiro ciclo menstrual …. A festa ocorre após alguns meses do enclausuramento, quando a jovem é solta e está pronta para casar.

zabrowa KudoZ activity Questions: 1684 (1 open) (25 closed without grading) Answers: 13
Local time: 12:14

English translation:confined/confinement

Explanation:
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Clauwolf
Local time: 07:14

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5 +5

cloistering or cloistered

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)

4 +4

confined/confinement

Clauwolf

4 +3

secluded / seclusion

Henrique Magalhaes

isolated..isolation

airmailrpl

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4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

confined/confinement

Explanation:
:)

Clauwolf
Local time: 07:14
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

21 mins confidence:

isolated..isolation

Explanation:
enclausurada > isolated
enclausuramento > isolation

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 07:14
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 24

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

secluded / seclusion

Explanation:
Another possibility...

Henrique Magalhaes
Local time: 11:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

cloistering or cloistered

Explanation:
which for fellow English speakers is not only for nuns....heading off that criticism at the pass....:)

for example,

And what of women? With the domestication of animals, humans finally observed the relationship between copulation and conception. Men understood paternity. With the advent of private property, and the development of inheritance customs, men found a need to ensure the legitimacy of their offspring. To accomplish this, they set out to control women's lives, especially women's sexuality, from birth to death. ***This control takes the form of cloistering-- where girls and women are kept at home, "protected" from public view and from casual relationships with strange men.*** The necessity for virgin brides arose. Parents did all they could to ensure their daughters avoided sex at all costs until marriage. Marriages were arranged by the parents to benefit the family, not for the children's sake. Wives were not permitted to be in public without being shrounded or veiled and without a trusted escort. Infidelity on the part of the wife became cause for severe punishment, often by death, while male infidelity was promoted through multiple wives, concubines, and "outside" lovers. Female genital mutilation began. This practice is still a significant form of oppression in the modern world where it is estimate that more than 100 million women have been surgically "protected" from sexual sensation or having sex outside marriage at all. In China, women's feet were bound (i.e. broken) to ensure that women wouldn't wander off, while "fashion" in our own culture often promotes an image of women as frail, helpless, and childlike, encouraging males to assume the roles of protector, dominator, and authority in relationships.

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 27

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