Abstract

This paper studies biographies of paper's women editors in Chile at the end of the 19th century. Considering their trajectories, I analyse the relationship between women and professionalization and the access to the cultural field in a critical moment for its conformation. A definition of women editor is made which considers a transformation according to historical context. It is demonstrated that to be an editor was a way to access to cultural field. This permits women manage gender norms. The specialization as editors made them professionals. They developed strategies of self-education taking advantage of the few possibilities of formal education available in that moment.