Abstract

PATROCLO, Luciana Borges. The mothers of future families: the magazine O Tico-Tico in the formation of Brazilian girls (1905-1925). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.18, n.3, pp.731-748.  Epub Jan 17, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v18n3-2019-9.

This article analyzes the magazine O Tico-Tico in order to identify its female content. Its time frame, from 1905 to 1925, covers the early twenty years of magazine existing until February of 1962. The researched editions belong to digital collections of Fundação Biblioteca Nacional. Considered the first Brazilian illustrated children’s magazine, its creations involved intellectuals who advocated that kind of journal should promote standards of behaviors. Among the representations that should be regulated were gender relations. The content of O Tico-Tico defends the perspective of a woman as an individual just devoted to maternity and to marriage. Elite groups had several concerns to strengthen the principles of bourgeois morality in which the boys were prepared to face the world of work and girls should receive the knowledge necessary to be a good housewife.

Keywords : O Tico-Tico; Children’s Magazine; Gender Relations; Female Formation.

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