Juana Manso. Jornal das Senhoras. Female writing. Serial. Brazilian Women.

The 19th century Brazilian press maintains a deep intercommunication with the literature, especially with regard to women's writing. Because it predates the book culture, several writers worked in the role of editors to finance their works, while these contributed to the maintenance of the newspaper. The texts formed not only the public opinion as also sketched the Brazilian reader. In this vanguard, Juana Paula Manso (1819-1875), Argentine exiled writer, disputed in the public arena, typically male, the readers' attention with a newspaper made by and for women, with the aim to promote the moral emancipation of women from her illustration. “The woman! What comes to be a woman?”, teased Manso in the first edition of Jornal das Senhoras with the same question asked almost a hundred years later by Simone de Beauvoir (1949), to criticize the alleged epistemological neutrality and expose the inequalities of relations between the sexes. Visiting the critical fortune of Juana Manso, the main objective of this dissertation is to analyze how the images of the 19th century brazilian women and the female reader were constructed and represented in the articles and in the serial of Jornal das Senhoras, in the period in which was under the direction of Juana Manso – January to June 1852. The Qualitative study seeks, from a bibliographic review of the press in Brazil in the 19th century, to verify how Jornal das Senhoras is inserted in this historical and social context, in order to then identify the strategies used to guide the readers in newspapers of the time and enable their emancipation discourse, having the theoretical support of the studies of Duarte (2016), Lajolo and Zilberman (2019), Candido (2006), Velasco y Arias (1937), Morel (2008), Costa (2012), among others. It is hoped with this work to identify the values that animated the female characters in the serial and in the chronicles, as well as the construction of the image of Brazilian woman and female reader in the articles of Jornal das Senhoras, from the woman's perspective.