Author(s):
Ferreira, Fátima Moura
Date: 1993
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23535
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Description
Dissertação mestrado História das Populações The main purpose of this dissertation is the analysis of the
debate on Marriage and Divorce Secularization that has been
developed between 1865 and 1910.
To achieve the objectives of our investigation we have used a
variety of documental sources, specially those related to the
discourses that social and poli ti cal elites produced, along that
historical period.
Some of these discourses have been intensively analysed,
namely the juridical, political, feminist and literary ones.
Although no conc1usion can be drawn upon this scientific issue,
it is important to summarize two ideas which have. given way
to our interpretative analysis.
The first fundamental one was, undoubtedly, the strong
ideological accent of the debate, simultaneous to the
appropriation of the campaign for the divorce by vanguard
political movements, ali revealing the important place ascribed
to the fami1y, as a prominent social institution.
The other one refers to the public concerns, expectations -and
pressures- about illegitimacy and non-recognized familiar
types of relationships.
Both led finaly to the promulgation of the divorce law (3-XI-
1910) after the republican revolution.