MULHERES PERFEITAS: condição social e instrução feminina em São Luís (1900-1930)

Abstract

This study it intends to argue the role played for the education in the formation of the womam in the traditional molds, in way to a society thatif intended modern, under of the new republican order. The social functions that fell again on the women still primavam for the domestic scope, having the tripod son, wife and mother as base in the formation and prompt in the feminine attributions. One presents urban, social and aducational the changes accured in São Luis, and its implications in the contribution of according to bourgeois ideal the feminine models of family and society.