Papéis para mulheres: Educação e abolição nas “Croniquetas” de Arthur Azevedo (1885-1889)

Abstract

The present dissertation proposed to analyze the education designed for the women who lived in the last decades of the 19th century in Brazil. For that, I used as main source the magazine “A Estação”; which was a fashionable Rio’s newspaper published between January 1879 and February 1904 for women, with a literature notebook in the background. I paid special attention to the chronicles section, "Chroniquetas", published by Arthur Azevedo under the pseudonym of Eloy, the Hero. For this study, it was also necessary to understand the surroundings of the magazine taking into account its section of fashions and the part dedicated to literature. Here I analyzed the "Chroniquetas" published between December 1885 and December 1889. This temporal cut was made for being a landmark in female education: in the 1880s educational institutions that until then only accepted the entrance of boys, started to admit enrollments of girls, making the formation of women gain attention and became the agenda in the conversations of the most renowned intellectuals of the time. In the composition of this research, it was also important to understand how issues of a political and abolitionist nature, which were under discussion at the time and appeared in such "Chroniquetas", gained some specificities, according to Azevedo's ideals and the profile of that periodical.