Conservative Narratives about Women's Suffrage in Brazil Between 1933 and 1937

The aim of this paper is to better understand opinions about the enfranchise-ment of women at the period immediately after the Electoral Code of 1932 until the beginning of the Estado Novo (from 1933 until 1937). It endeavoursto show how different to a so-called democratic progress of the 1930swomen's suffrage was, through the analysis of the history of other countries and sources of the time (female, Catholic and alternative newspapers). It demonstrates, instead, the existence of movement in the construction of a narrative that puts the vote (and women's emancipation) aside to adopt a type of persuasion aiming to maintain the status quo, used by both the Catholic Church and political powers

Emancipation · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society in Latin America