Abstract:
This research intends to delineate the profiles of German immigrant women, who came to the south of Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century. This delineation is based on three newspapers and on letters written by these women. Intertwined to this, the research wants to cast a critical look on a view of women that exists in the common sense, considering her limited to her sacred mission of wife-housewife-mother. The feminist theory and the notion of gender used in this context, found the critique on the outlined profiles. Ruptures and gaps arise as well as moments of re-signification of daily experiences, so often predefined. To structure this work so that it breaks up with dualisms and to propose the theoretical-methodological question of a feminist historiography as the key-question of this thesis concludes temporarily and with a plural proposition the reflection around this theme.
