Anita Philipovsky: the intellectual construction of a feminist

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss some aspects that marked the path of intellectual constitution on the writer and poet Anita Philipovsky, especially from her participation as a contributor to several periodicals and magazines from Paraná, adressing the historical context of the first three decades of the 20th century. Through a qualitative research of documentary nature, we sought to understand the strategies and actions that Anita used to insert herself in the editorial environment of newspapers and other printed media that circulated in this historical context, consolidating herself as a writer and social critic. To this end, the concept of gender was mobilized, articulating it with the possibilities of writing considered authorized for women, permeating the profiles of reader and writer, and later constituting herself as an intellectual engaged in the fight for women’s rights, emphasizing issues educational. It appears that Anita Philipovsky’s attitudes and positions can be understood from the formation of a network of sociability and the construction of capital, as well as from some habitus that favored their entry and circulation in some social spaces not so common for women in the historical context addressed.