Indícios do feminino nas cartas nos Jornais da Paraíba no século XIX (1850 a 1886)

Abstract

The present work intends to analyze the indications of representations of the feminine in the public instruction of Paraíba of Century XIX through the letters published in the newspapers and serials of the time. For this work we briefly discuss the "newspaper" support and its relationship with the cards as well as their characteristics and configurations. We analyzed six letters found in the periodicals published in the periodical period between 1850 and 1886, as well as the social context of the period through the newspaper's other writings, also seeking to understand the mentality and representations about the feminine gender in this period. period. For the analysis and representation of the clue of the feminine presence in such historical context, the contents of the epistles as already reported, we use the theoretical support offered by Roger Chartier through the New Cultural History, in the perspective of new objects, sources and approaches and for those who " the object of cultural history is to identify how a certain social reality is constructed, thought and given to read in different times and spaces "and also by Carlo Ginzburg and his proposal of investigation, for whom we could compare the wires that compose this search for the threads of a rug. "The coherence of the drawing is verifiable by running the carpet with its eyes in various directions." We intend here, through the analysis of these writings and strategies used to write letters in the newspapers, to evidence the signs of female social representations and practices in public education in the Empire in Paraíba.