O pensamento de Maria Lacerda de Moura sobre a emancipação feminina: contribuições e desafios para a educação contemporânea

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation was to think over the problem of the feminine emancipation on the present days and how it is related to education through the reading of a few texts by Maria Lacerda de Moura. It was based on her life history and feminist hermeneutics deliverance as the analysis method for the chosen excerpts by this twentieth century Brazilian intellectual, a pioneer in the studies on women in Brazil. The problem that involved the research focused on understanding Maria Lacerda’s perception of the feminine emancipation, and the contributions of her perception to this concept on women’s education in the current society. Initially, we suspected that for the author the feminine emancipation only occurred through education. However, through our reading, we discovered in her thoughts other dimensions over which we can think the women’s liberation from their oppressing situation: the economic dimension, the body and sexual dimensions and the knowledge dimension. Among the results of the research