Escrita transgressora no brasil oitocentista: Josefina Álvares de Azevedo e a emancipação das mulheres

Abstract

This monograph aims to highlight the transgressive character of Josefina Álvares de Azevedo’s writing. In her work, “A Mulher Moderna” (1891), Josefina undertook a series of challenges to gender norms dictated by the omano f order of nineteenth-century Brazil. In this way, we sought to identify how and from what aspects their criticisms were prepared. From the perspective of the bibliographical framework of feminist theory, the work was constituted under na analytical approach, based on the “gender” category, privileging the elaboration of a narrative attentive to the social construction of sexual omano f. The information obtained about Josefina’s private life was inconclusive. However, by searching for her individual trajectory, we gained na understanding of the broader historical omano and, thus, the recognition of a theme long neglected by historiography: the struggle of nineteenth-century women for their rights and full citizenship. This struggle began in the omano of the country’s modernization, in the oman of the century, oma na environment conducive to new forms of sociability was established. Writing was the instrument used by women to make their words public, given a omano that demanded silence from women. Precisely through writing, Josefina committed herself to dismantling many of the arguments that sought to naturalize the subjection of women. In this way, the omano f not oma criticized the nineteenth-century omano f system, but contributed to the beginning of its downfall by demanding equality, autonomy and political and social rights for women, thus shaping her vision of a "modern woman": no longer confined to the home, he became a full individual who demands his rights and seeks his emancipation.