La Feminidad y la Infancia Desde el Carnero de Juan Rodríguez Freyle

Abstract

In this text there will be a reading of chapters IX and XVIII of El Carnero by Juan Rodríguez Freyle, from a descriptive-analytical perspective where some ideas of childhood in the work will be realized, especially associated with childhood and women. From this reading we see how El Carnero not only accounts for the complex social processes of New Granada, but also builds a notion of the feminine taking different positions; On the one hand, women are approached as an obstacle to the supremacy of men, and to their masculinity, in the same way femininity takes paths in deeply ecclesiastical environments or also called divine in which women are seen as the perfidious or dark beings; On the other hand, its figure as a political power is enhanced in the sense that it is the woman who has the mandate, putting into perspective how certain forms of childhood have interference in the public from their private action.