The Woman Reader in the “Feminine Press” of the XIX c. A Comparative Study between Biblioteca de señoritas [Ladies´ Library] (1858-1859) and La Mujer [Woman] (1878-1881)

In the mid XIX century, press in Colombia began to focus on a new type of reader: women. This initiative required a new outlook in the administration of periodical publications, evidenced in their materiality, contents, editorials, topics, writing genres, among other aspects. In this way, each publi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cristina Gil Medina
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2016-07-01
Series:Historia y Memoria
Subjects:
Online Access:http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/article/view/5203
Description
Summary:In the mid XIX century, press in Colombia began to focus on a new type of reader: women. This initiative required a new outlook in the administration of periodical publications, evidenced in their materiality, contents, editorials, topics, writing genres, among other aspects. In this way, each publication accounted for the ideological orientation that guided it, and in this way, expressed a particular conception of woman, her role in society and consequently, the figure of ideal reader that it pretended to construct.
ISSN:2027-5137
2322-777X