Abstract

ARAUJO, Silvete Aparecida Crippa de  and  BERTUCCI, Liane Maria. Training housewives for work: Female professional training at the Icléa Children’s Home (Paraná Spiritist Federation), Curitiba in the 1950s. Educação. UNISINOS [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.1, pp.87-104.  Epub June 18, 2019. ISSN 2177-6210.  https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2019.231.06.

This article discusses two actions related to women’s education for work in Curitiba at the Icléa Children’s Home of the Paraná Spiritist Federation, between 1954 and 1958: the artisanship classes and domestic skills and the courses of the Center of Professional Initiation Lar Icléa. The Center, which offered classes in cutting and sewing, embroidery, crocheting, knitting, manicure-pedicure and culinary and home-made arts, was not an autonomous initiative of the Federation. However, its courses were in harmony with the ideas of the Federation spiritists, by reinforcing women’s skills, forming women so that, even if they worked outside the home, they would take on idealized functions for the housewives. This article was written from the analysis of memorialistic reports of the Spiritist Federation of Paraná and of the newspapers Mundo Espírita, Diário da Tarde and O Dia. Studies by Michelle Perrot served as a basis for the article’s approach, together with reflections on texts on spiritism and women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Keywords : female education; Center of Professional Initiation; Paraná Spiritist Federation.

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