Religião e género como formas de discriminação no século XIX: o casal Wood

The purpose of the investigation from which I give here the preliminary results is to study the influences of the Protestant ideas in the emergence of the ideology of emancipation and equality of gender in the XIX century in Portugal, taking as a example the action of a mixed English-Portuguese couple that comes from England to Portugal in the middle of the XIX century with new ideas concerning gender and religion. They believed in Stuart Mill and they were Protestants. They made proselytism, and explained and discussed their ideas in two magazines published under their direction - a hard task in a conservative and Catholic society. Were they successful in their mission, or were they marginalized? What kind of discrimination was used against them? Which gender standpoint can we view in their writings? What was their impact? These are some of the questions to be answered.