A LAICIDADE NO PENSAMENTO DE TRÊS MULHERES DO INÍCIO DO SÉCULO XX: MIRADAS FEMINISTAS SOBRE O TEMA NA AMÉRICA LATINA

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the debates around the theme of education, State and Church, in the Latin American context, in the first decades of the twentieth century, based on the discourses produced by three intellectuals who fomented a discussion about the secularity of teaching. They are: the Brazilian Maria Lacerda de Moura, the Argentine Carolina Muzilli and the Uruguayan Paulina Luisi. For the development of the analyzes are used sources of authorship of the three intellectuals, produced in different contexts, such as: books, periodicals and communications presented in Congresses of the time. The women chosen were at the forefront of controversial initiatives and national and international repercussions related to the education, insertion and emancipation of women. The text is divided into three parts. Initially, a brief discussion of the documentary corpus and on the theoretical issues that anchor the analyzes. Next, the question of secularity is discussed through the context in which such discussions arose, seeking to understand how the issue of secular teaching was linked to other demands. In the sequence, it was necessary to look at the individual trajectories of the chosen intellectuals in order to reflect on the motivations that led them to spread the discourses in favor of secularity in education.