""O que dizem de nós"" : o movimento feminino e educacional de Analia Franco publicado na imprensa de 1875 a 1919

Abstract

This work investigates the life story of Analia Emilia Franco (Resende, 02/01/1853 - São Paulo, 01/20/1919) through information published especially in the press from 1875, the first appearance of her name in periodicals, to 1919, the year of her death, with emphasis on newspapers A Província de São Paulo (now O Estado de S. Paulo), Correio Paulistano, A Familia (editor Josephina Álvares de Azevedo), A Vóz Maternal (AFBI publishing), and Anuários de Ensino e Estatístico do Estado de São Paulo (from 1902 to 1915). In production of this knowledge of exploratory approach, on the categorizations and representations of Analia Franco's performance in the educational and social field, dated at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, a reflection and historiographic analysis of the documentary sources is presented, using the methods supported by concepts and procedures for examining records and narratives by authors in the field of history, sociology, philosophy, education, political science, biography, among others. In a dialogue with the evidence and with what is in the compiled materials, it is proposed an analysis of the elements that identify her trajectory as a teacher of first letters in the cities of the interior of São Paulo and in this capital, writer, pedagogue, intellectual, businesswoman, avant-garde, idealist, Christian; what she meant by education and social assistance; and the group of which she was a part, and which reveals her engagement in the women's movement and in educational entrepreneurship, as one of the pioneers in the field of Brazilian school education, creating the Associação Feminina Beneficente e Instrutiva de São Paulo - AFBI, through which founded more than 30 educational institutions, directly and indirectly, to attend, mainly, the deprived childhood and to make possible a path of economic, social and intellectual independence of women.