Voting is enough? The struggle for the women vote and the control over the political participarion of women in Brazil

Abstract

The women right to vote was introduced in Brazil by the Electoral Code of 1932. It represented the overthrow of a solid barrier to women’s political participation.  However,  this  right  did  not  eliminate  all  obstacles  to  the political performance of women, which have been maintained by other ways. Thus,  this  article  analyzes,  from  the  speeches  of  politicians,  the suffragist movement, and the newspapers at the time, the process that led to the adoption of the female vote, but which kept women’s access to the political arena controlled.