Santa, esposa-mãe e professora: revista Flor do Lácio e educação de mulheres no Colégio Imaculada Conceição de Montes Claros/MG (1943 – 1957)

Abstract

This study discusses some female social representations like saint, wife-mother and elementary school mistress joined by Flor do Lácio magazine, from 1943 to 1944 and from 1956 to 1957. Schoolgirls and school mistress were main collaborators of this magazine which was characterized as printing of Imaculada Conceição School, in Montes Claros city. The research is inserted in the interface of investigations about representations, focalizing the instruction and female learning as condition to progress. Firstly, the printing and its utilization in education process and female learning were analyzed over all education in normal teaching offered by Imaculada Conceição School. Thereafter, influence and acceptance of Virgin Maria image as ideal female model were understood. Finally, the approach was finished in transformation from little girls/ladies to school mistress. In order to perform the proposed study, methodological procedures were based on three linked dimensions each other: bibliography, analysis of written and printed resources and interpretation of interviews. We verified that some representations of saint women, wife-mother and elementary school mistress could be attributed to a conception of saint female Trinity. Moreover, the debate about gender relationships which contributed to form a profile of ideal feminine and school mistress, supported by school, was brought to a social area.