VISIBLE. WOMEN AND BOURGEOIS PUBLIC SPACE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

From a cultural perspective, and without losing sight of the reality of Valladolid, this work constitutes a compendium of images that demonstrate the daily and continuous presence of women in the public space that the quintessentially bourgeois 19th century molded in its image and likeness. Women, while an essential part of this new sociability, are barred from most of its manifestations, but the feminine desire for recognition of their presence and prominence in public spaces opens the way through two different models: on the one hand, social incursions based on the opportunities offered by the bourgeois model itself; on the other, actions that the normalizing and moralizing society of the 19th century considered public transgressions. Both converge at the dawn of the 19th century. The process of recognition of women's visibility and female emancipation is now irreversible.