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This article is an excerpt from the master's thesis of the Postgraduate program in teaching of humanity and languages-UFN, the present work seeks to outline a panoramic exposition about the western civilizational process. Thus, the proposal focuses on describing how standards of conduct and self-control have been guided, which have become fundamental requirements for coexistence in society, and in what way the idea of etiquette and civility has become an indispensable requirement in Women's lives. The methodology is characterized by being of a qualitative nature based on the bibliographical basis. It is concluded that the manuals influenced the choice, as well as in the way of acting of the womens normalizing the relations of power and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Societies, throughout history, have created codes with the aim of guiding relations between groups and people. In Brazil, manuals of etiquette and civility were used with the pretense of forming an emerging bourgeoisie, desirous of appearing good manners, especially in the early decades of the twentieth century. This article is a result of research on women's daily life from 1940 to 1960. Four civility and etiquette manuals were used as empirical sources, aiming at a historical review of aspects of women's life, in the context of Brazil, with the purpose of recovering a history based on invisibility. The analyzed manuals were consulted by elite women who mirrored themselves in them to perform behavioral roles in society and allowed to describe sparse fragments of women's lives by the large number of social rules that normalized their behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]