The Magic of Perfume in Cacimba | Gonçalo Ferrão Jr.

Many cultural values that identify us, such as people, families and peoples today are confronted with the imperactivity of change in the train of globalization.

The stunning speed of the demands of modern times generates the existential crisis of family traditions and cultural values. Between the present and the future, there is uncertainty about the outcome of the struggle between the old and the new. The realignment. The reidentification. The redefinition of the family concept. The future of a woman's role.

These lines are a passionate, vibrant invitation from some of the perpetuities of women seeking solutions to the challenges of change in the face of the insecurity of their marital and loving relationships in times of modernity.

And the guise of soul washing, women, in this novel, question all the shackles that bind them to the condition of subordinate humans responsible for the liberation of society.

With realism they expose the implications of women's accountability for the domestic governance of the family. They re-signify initiation rites and virginity. Requalify the wolf. They derail premature marriages and mutilation of sexual organs. They fight fallacies about polygamy, manmatism. Rebut the submission and subservience of women to men.

And they find again in the paths of knowledge, economic independence, commitment to the persistence in the struggle for the emancipation of society, with equal rights and duties between men and women.