“Distinguisehed abolitionists” and its political practices: a possible reading based on Minas Gerais newspapers: “Distinguisehed abolitionists” and its political practices: a possible reading based on Minas Gerais newspapers
In this article, we seek to make visible and sayable the abolitionist practices of women from the middle and upper classes of nineteenth-century Minas Gerais society, signifying them as political practices. To this end, we analyze the traces of this presence in the public abolitionist debate based o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (UNIMONTES) |
| Repositorio: | Caminhos da História (Montes Claros. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.periodicos.unimontes.br:article/8761 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/caminhosdahistoria/article/view/8761 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mulheres Minas Gerais Abolicionismo Política Imprensa Women Abolitionism Politics Press Mujeres Prensa |
| Sumario: | In this article, we seek to make visible and sayable the abolitionist practices of women from the middle and upper classes of nineteenth-century Minas Gerais society, signifying them as political practices. To this end, we analyze the traces of this presence in the public abolitionist debate based on newspapers from the second half of the nineteenth century, in order to explain the unequal meanings and the silences produced regarding this action. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Minas Gerais press invested in the social construction of women's incapacity and lack of political protagonism, and historiography insisted on ignoring and/or silencing their historical presence and actions, we observed exactly the opposite in the research carried out. There are several and diverse records about their active participation in public life, in the political practices and movements of the second half of the nineteenth century. The aim is to investigate the various forms of participation created and exercised by them, despite and because of the normative prohibition imposed on them and the historical silences politically constructed around this action. |
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