Histórias silenciadas: existências e resistência das mulheres em Porto Alegre, século XIX

Abstract

This thesis aims to give visibility to the trajectory of struggle and resistance of women against patriarchy in History, seeking to understand its origins and consequences of the male domination system against women. Guided by a Feminist History, I analyze three criminal cases from the end of the 19th century in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and I realize that women sought to position their narratives, building a basis for the struggle for women's rights. Through these experiences I can understand how Justice, guided by a modern/colonial cisgender-straight world thought, was a mechanism of patriarchy, giving approval to the silencing of women and not blaming men for the violence committed. Deflowering, abandonment, rape, pedophilia and unwanted pregnancy are some of the gender violence that run through the analyzed experiences. I also locate men, contextualizing their practices within the patriarchy, a plot built through ideological practices and institutionalized by men in the late 19th century. I show that through the imposition of the dichotomy between private and public women, institutionalized at the end of the 19th century, from the modern/colonial and monogamous hetero-cisgender family, the system opens gaps for men to enjoy the body, work, time, affection and reproduction of women.