O Jornal das Senhoras, um projeto pedagógico: mulher, educação, maternidade e corpo - (Rio de Janeiro na segunda metade do Século XIX)

Abstract

This aim of this historical research is to question the aspects of change and continuity in the history of women of the elite class, and gender relationships in the second half of the 19th Century in Rio de Janeiro. Its main historical source is O Jornal das Senhoras, the first magazine written by women and targeted at a female readership. Based on the contextualization of Rio de Janeiro, the press, women, and the patriarchal family, it discusses the importance of education for women in the positivist vision of the writer of O Jornal das Senhoras, Joana Paula Manso de Noronha, and in the Christian vision of Violante A. X. Bivar e Velasco, both of whom desired the moral emancipation of women. It then goes on to discuss maternity, understood as a divine mission by the writers of the journal, although with different points of view. Finally, it addresses the importance of the press as a means of dispensing advice on fashion, care of the body and beauty for women. The press was the media used to divulge new ideas of progress, with the aim, through its pedagogical discourse, of preparing women for the transforming process that the city was going through