Abstract

ALMEIDA, Jane Soares de. Primary school training in Portugal: feminine conquests at the beginning of the 20^th century. Cad. Pesqui. [online]. 1997, n.102, pp.65-88. ISSN 0100-1574.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Portugal was a society where traditional gender roles were ideologically assimilated and accepted by both men and women. Feminine identity, relegatedto domestic intimacy, existed in a society replete with values, expectations and prejudices that comprised its skeleton and determined its customs. The transgression and questioning of sexual roles was due to a few literate women who took the issue beyond the domestic sphere through publication of their writings in the feminine and educational periodical press. An analysis of this press permits a view of the professional situation of primary school teachers, their struggles and conquests at the time, and the overturning of the myths that considered the devaluing and feminization of the profession to be synonymous.

Keywords : Magistério Primário; Feminização; Imprensa Feminina e Educacional .

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