This work has the analysis of women and gender relations between the years 1920 and 1925 in the state of Pernambuco through the religious magazine Maria. The construction of the text passes through the feminine press, the vision about the woman in the Catholic Church, he feminist movement of the 1920s in Brazil and understanding the changes that the country was going through in the first decades of the 20th century and the resistance of progress for some groups. The theoretical basis used will be Joan Scott for the discussion of gender and Roger Chartier to work on the representations and Cultural History.
