Viajar, observar e propor: Bertha Lutz na circulação de modelos internacionais de Economia Doméstica Agrícola (1922-1937)

Abstract

Study on the trajectory of Bertha Lutz's travels around the appropriation of Agricultural Home Economics models in rural education in the United States and Belgium and its developments between the years 1922 to 1937. This research, based on these two trips made by this important intellectual, scientist, museologist and feminist, sought to understand the way in which she articulated discourses and actions to create projects of this educational modality, seen by a series of feminist movements, inside and outside Brazil with which she wove a dialogue, as an emancipator. In addition, this work analyzed how her international experience influenced a series of her measures, such as participation in congresses and the creation of institutions such as the Associação Brasileira de Educação (ABE), an important center of national educational discussion in that period. In the thesis several sources were used, such as letters, telegrams, travel reports, congress minutes, parliamentary speeches, newspaper prints and photos of the time. The research, therefore, wanted to elucidate Bertha Lutz's attempt to implement these models of Agricultural Domestic Economy modality of rural education, along the lines of the North American and Belgian models, her attempt to foster a broad and national education project for women, in line with what was being discussed in international feminist movements, with which she and the Brazilian Federation for Women's Progress that she chaired had already been building dialogue, since its creation in 1922, that they understood in this education, the way to the democratization of access to education for all women.