Mexico’s press history from a gender perspective

Abstract

The history of the press in México has as objectives recover, reconstruct and interpret the way in which the journalism was executed in a specific period of time. But this history recovered only the masculine presence. The gender studies had allowed making visible the women and feminine journalists in diverse historical periods, the periodistical gender they practiced and the topics they worried about. That is how it can be affirmed that their journalism was characterized, in firsts terms, for exposing experiences out of the intimacy and interpret their own feminine condition. Subsequently, for inform about diverse situations considered news, also considered not important but relevant since end of the nineteenth century. Finally, the main objective of this article is apply gender category to journalism history.