Women’s empowerment in the nineteenth century Brazilian newspaper O Sexo Feminino

Abstract

Despite the 19th century historical tendency to restrict women’s life to the domestic sphere, some efforts for the empowerment of women could be seen in the press of the period. In this paper we focus on the weekly newspaper O Sexo Feminino, published in Campanha (a rural village of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais) during 1873-74 and we analyse its discourse concerning the feminist perspective on political, cultural and educational issues.

Feminist-Press; O Sexo Feminino; Woman’s Right; Woman’s Work; Popularization of Science