Women and their printed plots

Reflections for a historiographic rethink – Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1852-1855

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to conduct a brief reflection on the almost total exclusion of women in the historiographic field, more specifically in the areas of press history and in the scope of intellectual history productions in Brazil and Argentina, especially with regard to discussions on the 19th century. In addition, it aims to analyze the performance of women in the press, during the early years of the 1850s, in female-owned journals and a feminist perspective. To this end, it uses the periodicals Jornal das Senhoras, published in Rio de Janeiro, between 1852 and 1855 as a source; La Camelia and Album de Señoritas, both published in Buenos Aires, the first being published in 1852 and the second in 1854. From the analysis, it appears that the performance of women in the 19th century press provides a reinterpretation of social plots in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires and the historiographical problematizations show the need to expand the approaches taken by the history of the press and by intellectual history, also including the action and production of women in the Brazilian and Argentine historical processes.