Filhos da princesa do sertão: representações da masculinidade na imprensa em Caxias/MA durante a primeira república

Abstract

The present work sought to problematize representations about masculinity in the city of Caxias, in the light of the press in the context of the First Republic. In the meantime, the newspapers disseminated through news and reports on violence, fashion, drug advertisements and alcoholism the various male performances that circulated in Caxias. The male representations were thus constructed, understood and classified between ideal and disorder in view of their practices. To discuss such questions I have worked with such categories as gender and masculinities and popular masculinities of the popular segments as a way to understand through the press the composition of representations of the behaviors of men who were exalted and those who should becurbed in the bosom of relationships marked by social class and color.