A educação para mulheres no colégio Santa Clara em Santarém-Pa nos anos 70 (séc.Xx)

Abstract

This article analyzes female education at the Colegio Santa Clara in the city of Santarem in transmitted to women in the early 1970s, taking as a primary source accounts of former students. This college was aimed at training the girls santarena elite and also of having orphaned direction for religious life can become a nun or not. Catholic religious education favored the formation of “docile women”, and “devotes” to promote a refinement of Educandas to fulfill their role of being a good wife and mother according to the profile that the company expected female at that time. In the 70’s female education takes on new meaning outside the domestic space where women could have an education geared to their professionalization and thus enter the labor market. The study was done through ethnographic research and oral narrative of former students of the College. We sought to understand the contributions of education for women in search of new spaces in Santarém and diverse knowledge that contributed to the training of women in the 70’s.