DE “PERFECTA CASADA” A “ÁNGEL DEL HOGAR” O LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL ARQUETIPO FEMENINO EN EL XIX
María Ángeles Cantero Rosales
Resumen
Este trabajo tiene por objeto observar, a través de los discursos prescriptivos de algunos moralistas y reglamentistas entre los siglos XVII y XIX, el modelo de mujer y vida cotidiana que estos trataron de imponer en la sociedad de su tiempo. El estudio de los mismos nos ayuda a situarnos en el S. XIX y a comprender el arquetipo de mujer como “ángel del hogar”, socialmente demandado, que atraviesa todos los discursos de la sociedad decimonónica. Estos textos, en los que subyace un pensamiento claramente androcéntrico, son confrontados con los de aquellas intelectuales que, adelantándose a su época, concibieron y reivindicaron para las mujeres “otra forma de ser y estar en el mundo”. En consecuencia, tres tipos de documentos han sido consultados: artículos periodísticos, ensayos religiosos y filosóficos y ensayos de género, ‘a favor de las mujeres’.
This paper aims to consider, through the prescriptive discourses of several moralists and ‘puritans’, from the 17th century to the 19 th century, the female role model and ideal everyday life that these scholars traid to impose on their respective societies. To study these ‘moralists’s forms of discourse enables us to situate ourselves within the context of the 19 th century, as well as to understand the archetype of woman as the “angel in the house.” Such an archetype was indeed an important social demand and it can be found in all the forms of discourse of nineteenth-century society. Those strongly male-centered texts are here opposed to writings by female intellectuals ahead of their time who imagined and claimed on women’s behalf another “way of being and of being in the world.” In this perspective, we consulted three different types of sources: articles from periodicals, religious and philosophical essays, and, finally, gender-oriented essays “in favour of women.”
This paper aims to consider, through the prescriptive discourses of several moralists and ‘puritans’, from the 17th century to the 19 th century, the female role model and ideal everyday life that these scholars traid to impose on their respective societies. To study these ‘moralists’s forms of discourse enables us to situate ourselves within the context of the 19 th century, as well as to understand the archetype of woman as the “angel in the house.” Such an archetype was indeed an important social demand and it can be found in all the forms of discourse of nineteenth-century society. Those strongly male-centered texts are here opposed to writings by female intellectuals ahead of their time who imagined and claimed on women’s behalf another “way of being and of being in the world.” In this perspective, we consulted three different types of sources: articles from periodicals, religious and philosophical essays, and, finally, gender-oriented essays “in favour of women.”
Discursos prescriptivos, mujer
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