Anita Garibaldi em Belo Horizonte: representações do feminino em disputa

Abstract

On september 21, 1913, a monument to Anita Garibaldi was inaugurated in Belo Horizonte, city that had an extensive italian community. Through the path made by the sculputure in the capital of Minas Gerais and the newspapers’ narratives about the character, we seek to analyse the Anita Garibaldi representations during the first decades of XXth century, including some more contemporary monuments. The figure of Anita Garibaldi appears sometimes an a great heroine, sometimes as a woman who does not represent an ideal of femininity to be followed. From the mythical heroine to the woman with questionable behavior and morals, there are lots of Anitas and monuments that represent these representation’s disputes in urban locus.