Male reaction to the emancipation of the brazilian “social condition of women” in the 19th century

Abstract

Traditionally, the historiography of Santa Catarina has focused on the personalist history of great political achievements by a male elite. New historiographical perspectives, especially those stemming from the New History, have expanded the range of methodological tools with which historians can revisit the past. Thus, new types of sources from everyday life, such as periodicals, along with new fields of study, such as women's history, have deepened our understanding of the past. Gender studies have become one of the most promising fields of this new historiography, which seeks in the difference in gender construction between men and women a historiographical window that allows for the formulation of new questions and more comprehensive answers to already known problems. In this sense, this article aims to expose the male reaction to the quest for the renewal of the social role of women through a newspaper article from 1894, "The Social Condition of Women," by Lopes de Souza, published in the periodical Jornal do Commercio, from Desterro, Santa Catarina