Literatura e história : perspectivas de interpretação de narrativas e ensaios do Jornal das senhoras.

Abstract

In the nineteenth century, in Brazil, the education of women was almost nil and few could read. If reading was considered dangerous, writing was much worse. What was expected from women was that they should be good wives, mothers and housewives. It is in this historical moment that the Jornal das Senhoras is founded. This magazine would have been the first Brazilian periodical written for and by women. The main objective of this magazine was to promote the woman`s moral and intellectual emancipation. However, female emancipation can not be seen from a contemporary perspective, because the editors of the Jornal das Senhoras understood this emancipation as the illustration of the woman. Thus, this wrote evaluates, from the Hermeneutic perspective, the content and the ideology of the Jornal das Senhoras, in relation to women, in the period from 1852 to 1855, based on the interpretation of fictional narratives and essays, as well as other items of publication.