Entre virtud y vicio. La normación del género en los periódicos de tipo espectador del siglo XVIII

The journalistic-literary genre of the spectators developed in early 18th century England and rapidly spread all over the Western World. As a very popular communication medium over the course of the century, the spectator periodicals mirror the knowledge of the Enlightenment within their pages. Among a plethora of topics, also the topics of gender, especially what it means to be a valuable woman and man in the (emerging) bourgeois society and gender relations, are addressed.

This article examines the stereotypical gender discourses within the French- and Spanish-language spectators and demonstrates, how the cultural knowledge on gender was co-constructed, retained, and distributed in the periodical over the century