A mulher soldado on stage (São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, 1916): an operet in scene educating sensibilities

Abstract The presentations of the operetta A mulher soldado in São João del-Rei - MG (1916) were highly appreciated by the public and the press and were configured as performances that educated sensibilities. This article analyzes the play's manuscript, local newspapers and a local author play, from sources found in the collection that belonged to the amateur group responsible for the shows. Weseek to understand the education of the sensibilities that would have occurred during these performances. Supported by studies of the History of Education of the Sensibilities, we identified that the shows, while reinforcing sensibilities linked to male domination, imposed by a dominant elite, allowed people sympathetic to the feminist struggle to experience new sensibilities.

Keywords:
history of education of the sensibilities; gender; history of spectacles