From on “Good Example” to Another: Cinematographic Consumption and Women’s Presence in Urban Space during Rio de Janeiro’s Belle Époque

Abstract

This article discusses the relation between cinematographic consumption and the presence of women in the urban space of Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century. In an extremely hierarchical environment, we verify the ways in which the act of going to the movies was inserted in the field of possibilities for the circulation of women in urban space. We analyzed the strategies of male domination found in policies to establish order and support the family during the “First Republic”, as well as the tactics adopted by women to resist these strategies and demonstrate dissatisfaction with the roles attributed to genders in the period.

Cinema; Consumption; Women; Belle Époque; Rio de Janeiro