Entre carretéis e cachimbos: notas sobre mulheres no Jornal Correio da Pedra (1918-1930)

Abstract

For a long time, women were seen as inferior to men, silenced and left aside by historiography, with very few reports of the lives of these women, appearing only as daughters, sisters or wives. It is in this context that this research turns to Vila Operária da Pedra, located in the backlands of Alagoas, with the objective of analyzing how the representation of women from the Pedra factory nucleus took place in the journal that circulated weekly between 1918 and 1930. The methodology descriptive research, using documentary research in the Correio da Pedra newspaper, thus seeking to carry out a qualitative analysis based on articles that made direct or indirect references about the women present in the workers' village. Thus, resulting in the representation of women as the weaker sex, of volatile and easily manipulated emotions. In conclusion, the female situation presented in Vila Operária Pedra was not different from the situations found in the hinterland and in the factories located in the interior regions, these being placed and represented in female places stereotyped by society.