A mulher do século XIX na cidade do Rio de Janeiro representada pelos textos e imagens do Jornal das Senhoras.

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of a weekly periodical of the 19th century that his first publications in the years 1852 and 1853 having its end in 1855, in the city Rio de Janeiro, and had as its first editor-in-chief Joana Paula Manso de Noronha. We will attempt to present a reading on the condition of nineteenth-century from a set of images selected and published between the years 1852 and 1853. We emphasize in our analysis the discourse of woman as mistress of the home, mother and wife who should be well instructed and obedient to the laws dictated by religion in order to meet all the necessary requirements to fill the profile of a legitimate lady of the elite responsible for family progress. We discussed how the woman who belonged to a society of patriarchal values ​​still managed in a timid way its emancipation moral and participation in the public universe from the recognition of its importance the maintenance of the family, and how the newspaper fostered this idea in the woman using as an important and attractive dowry.