Ela deu-me eu dela recebi centres on five generations of women in Clara Amaral's family, focusing on her grandmother, Maria Joana Cruz dos Santos, who couldn't read or write. What could be seen as a detail in a family context turns out to be a socio-cultural obstacle that many women in Portugal had to face until the reform of the education system in 1950, which until then excluded on the basis of gender and social status.

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