Spreading the word: the ‘Woman Question’ in the periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868-9)
This article considers for the first time the progressive Portuguese periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868–69) from a transnational perspective, with particular reference to contemporary debates about women’s suffrage in England as well as the wider emergence of transnational women’s netw...
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| description | This article considers for the first time the progressive Portuguese periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868–69) from a transnational perspective, with particular reference to contemporary debates about women’s suffrage in England as well as the wider emergence of transnational women’s networks around that time. It discusses the epistolary contact of the Principal Editor, Francisca Wood, with key radical figures such as Lydia Becker in England, Marie Goegg in Switzerland and André Léo in France, through an analysis of relevant editorials, articles and correspondence received from abroad and published in the pages of the journals. Furthermore, it casts light on how Francisca Wood and her enlightened husband, William Thorold Wood, invoked the ongoing support of prominent men such as John Stuart Mill for the cause of women’s rights. Such a pioneer early feminism in Portugal was particularly remarkable in the 1860s – a context preceding the socio-political and cultural debates staged publicly in the 1871 Casino Lectures by the “Geração de 70” – which, furthermore, all but sidelined the “Woman Question.” The article concludes with a brief discussion of whether, notwithstanding Wood’s invisibility at the point of her death in 1900, she may have been behind a symbolically significant cultural intervention: the (unsigned and incomplete) first translation of Jane Eyre into Portuguese, published in instalments from 1877 onwards in O Zoophilo. |
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