WOMEN AND ABOLITION: DIFFERENT WOMEN AND DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING ABOLITIONIST (1870-1895)
Abolition; Women; women's rights
The dissertation aims to investigate the ways in which different groups of women acted in abolitionism, through the Rio de Janeiro press, between 1870 and 1895. Although the movement represented a possibility of insertion in political debates for many women, this opening did not happen equally for all of them. It is necessary to delimit this vast category - women - in order to identify the specificities and experiences among them. Therefore, we will deal here with black women - free, freed or enslaved -, women artists and women in the press. Our goal is to understand how they were inserted in the abolitionist campaign and how this role was seen by society at the time, as well as to understand if it is possible to establish a relationship between abolition and the demand for "women's rights", widespread during the last decades of the century. Our research proposes to investigate: (1) How did the abolitionist movement provide women with the possibility of insertion in political debates? (2) How different women used the space and tools they had to act in favor of abolition? (3) How women used the political and social context of the abolitionist movement to create strategies to claim their own demands? To answer these questions the documental body selected were the periodicals Carbonário (1881-1890) and A Família (1888-1894), which circulated in the city of Rio de Janeiro at the end of the 19th century.