Feminismo/s (Dec 2010)

Reformulating the images of power around domesticity: formal and informal education as the basis of women's citizenship

  • Luz Sanfeliu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2010.16.05
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 16
pp. 83 – 105

Abstract

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During the Spanish liberal revolution, the attribution of female competences in the domestic area led to the implementation of a differential education in function of the gender and slowed down the incorporation of girls into the schooling system. Based on this perspective, the aim of this article is to associate the discourses and practices of the different Hispanic feminisms, of the Free Teaching Institution or of republicanism with respect to the education of women, with institutional doctrines, legislations and new pedagogical doctrines. The aim is to inform about how these alternative sectors questioned the rules of power, modified the state policies and made it possible for girls and women to have a more equal access to education and to citizenship.

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