O Instituto Profissional Feminino Orsina da Fonseca e a governamentalidade dos corpos das mulheres através da ordem educacional (1915 – 1945)

Abstract

Dealing with the estate of the Instituto Profissional Feminino Orsina da Fonseca (IPFOF) raised a series of very current questions. The way in which the State guided female education, determining for students what it understood to be ―their place in society‖ raises the importance of making known the roles that were attributed to women and that, in some way, still survive in our social relations. The analysis of the teaching material, internal regulations, personal files and all the material produced and disseminated in the institution from 1915 to 1945 reveals a universe of data that allows us to define the conduct expected from teachers, as educator(s) and reproducer of the values of the time, and of the students in training. Through these pre-established patterns of behavior, from the daily response to the rules determined by the State, we will be able to establish the importance of an educational model for the foundation of a concept of citizenship, in which women have their social function standardized and their role as limited citizens. In this sense, IPFOF is the reflect of women in Rio de Janeiro (the country's capital then) and in Brazil throughout the covered period.