‘I am your slave, speak and I will obey.’ Misogyny and symbolic violence in Robustania Armiño's serialised novels for 'El Correo de la Moda'

This thesis addresses gender violence as a phenomenon historically articulated through widely normalised narrative resources. From this perspective, it analyses the original fiction—five serialised stories and six profiles of famous women—published by Robustiana Armiño de Cuesta in El Correo de la Moda (1853–1855). The main objective is to identify the symbolic manifestations of gender violence present in the corpus, as well as the rhetorical mechanisms that enabled both its representation and cultural legitimisation. The works analysed are understood as narrative devices that contributed to naturalising female subordination in one of the first mass media specifically created for women: the women's press. Conceived as an analytical model transferable to other research, the methodology followed is organised into three phases: codification of violence, symbolic-discursive analysis and character study. The results indicate that the works analysed consolidated normative models of femininity and domesticity aligned with the patriarchal order, classism and the religious division of the time—Catholicism versus Protestantism—while revealing fissures from which incipient forms of female agency emerged.

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