Social Space Beyond the Public Sphere: Women's Writing and Contested Hegemonies

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-136
2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-124
Author(s):  
Katharine Gillespie (book author) ◽  
Karen Raber (review author)

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Débora Ferreira

Regina Felix’s Sedução e heroísmo: imaginação de mulher is a welcome contribution to the historiography of women’s writing in Brazil. Focusing her analysis on four narrative works, two by Maria Benedita Bormann (1853-1895) and two by Emília Bandeira de Melo (1852-1910), Felix successfully shows how Bormann’s and Melo’s literary representations capture the ongoing changes in societal gender roles, namely the process whereby middle-class Brazilian women moved from the patriarchal “casa grande” to the public sphere of the street, where work issues and political voices prevailed.


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