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- Title
Assinem assinem, que a alma não tem sexo! Petição coletiva e cidadania feminina no Portugal constitucional (1820-1910).
- Authors
PALACIOS CEREZALES, DIEGO
- Abstract
Signing a collective petition was an important way of taking part in politics during Portugal's constitutional monarchy. Many women signed petitions, thereby exercising a political right. Women petitioners provoked public discussions that brought their political status into the open, advancing the possibility of feminine citizenship. During the 1850s and 1860s, women's use of the right to petition was visible and hotly debated, but during the 1867-70 political crisis women were stopped from taking part in petitions. Signatures of women reappeared only in the 1890s, hand-in-hand with the workers' movement, catholic and anticlerical mobilization, and republicanism. Meanwhile, those were times of crisis for liberalism, and the right to petition had already lost the favored, high profile status it once had within the bourgeois public sphere.
- Subjects
PETITIONS; POLITICAL participation -- History; RIGHT of petition; HISTORY of women's rights; PORTUGUESE women; PORTUGUESE history; PORTUGUESE Revolution, 1910; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Analise Social, 2012, Vol 47, Issue 205, p739
- ISSN
0003-2573
- Publication type
Article