PT Journal AU Pinzani, A Rego, W TI Penize, osobni autonomie, obcanstvi. Vliv programu Bolsa Familia na zucastnene SO Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research PY 2014 BP 3 EP 15 VL 15 IS 1 DI 10.13060/12130028.2014.15.1.97 DE Bolsa Familia; autonomy; money; poverty; citizenship AB The paper briefly presents the results of a five-year field research project (2006 to 2011) studying the moral and political transformations amongst extremely poor women participating in the Brazilian Programa Bolsa Familia (PBF). Our fundamental hypothesis was that regular monetary income would generate individual growth and an increase in personal autonomy and political inclusion. We analyse the interviews by way of a phenomenology of poverty in Brazil. ER