This study examines how women in Brazil's Vargas Age were considered, by various social groups and established power, as a privileged instrument for the transformation of the country's population. The public defense of what many regarded as female roles, acquired a new perspective: taking care of home, becoming mothers, ensuring the welfare of others, were activities which were remodeled, in the social and political context of the time, as essential tasks for building a healthy, disciplined, and industrious Brazilian population
Vargas Age; Population; Women