Interseccionalidade e gênero : personagens femininas nos romances Úrsula, de Maria Firmina dos Reis, e D. Narcisa de Villar, de Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro

Abstract

This dissertation have the intension to identify how female novels from century XIX, in particular from writers Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro and Maria Firmina dos Reis, published in 1859, from interseccionality perspective, can contribute to understand the diferent opression kinds suffered by women from that period. To fulfill this intent, it was organized a theoric fundamentation about interseccionality and gender studies; it was contextualized the historic period when the novels was written; and it was analized the female characters representation, in the novels, from categories of gender, race and class. The novels reading allowed the identification of the ways how the writers had approached this issues and had built representations which allow the actual reader to know better the female perspective from century XIX women. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]