Como as serpentes, formosas, mas venenosas, insinuantes, mas traiçoeiras: as mulheres e a violência no Alto Minho entre os finais de oitocentos e o dealbar do século XX

Abstract

Es nuestro objetivo analizar las acciones de violencia en las que eran victimas las mujeres del Alto Minho, región situada al Norte de Portugal, durante el siglo XIX y la primera mitad del siglo XX. En consecuencia de una elevada emigración masculina, iniciada a finales del siglo XVIII y cuyo principal destino era Brasil, la mujer, además de gobernar la casa, empezó también a asumir un conjunto de tareas consideradas típica mente masculinas, obligándola a abandonar la seguridad del espacio doméstico, lo que, en consecuencia, le proporcionará nuevas formas de sociabilidad y el acceso a espacios que hasta entonces le eran prohibidos.

It is our goal to analyze actions of violence that women were victims in the Alto Minho, region located in the North of Portugal, during the 19th and the first ha lf of the 20th century. As a result of high male emigration, which began ill the late eighteenth century and that had Brazil as main destination, the woman of Alto Min ho beyond the government of the house, also passed to assume a number of tasks viewed as typically male, forcing her to leave the seclusion of domestic space, which, therefore, it provided new forms of sociability and access to spaces that until now were banned to her.