Represent women: visual production and gender relations in a Spanish Manners Collection at the end of the 19th century

Abstract

The collection Las mujeres españolas, Portuguese y American, is a collection published in the 70 years of the 19th century, composed of texts and cromolitografias, representing territorial spaces in Spain, Portugal, Americas Spanish and Portuguese and Filipino. Draws attention to the fact that this is a production designed for men, produced by them, but that theme of women. In it, you can see a visual production designed the figure of the woman, from the representations of daily life, activities, customs, and practices considered as spaces. This exhibition aims to reflect on gender relations visible in the way it was conceived and organized the collection, as well as aspects that marked the visual production of the work, to represent the Spanish, Portuguese and American women in19th century .