Rousseau: a educação da mulher e sua formação cívica.

Abstract

The Master's Thesis is structured in three chapters and has as its goal to argue that Rousseau planned woman’s education based on civic formation. The author defends that, on family environment, the honorable and righteous woman will pass on this education to her children. On the first chapter, we explore Rousseau’s life aspects, highlighting his relationship with women to establish feminine links on his life as a source of his interpretation concerning the way woman’s education should be led. Another approached aspect on this chapter is the female universe comprehension until the XVIIIth century in order to understand the way woman was seen by that period’s society and the importance of Rousseau’s vision on this context. On the second chapter, investigations on Rousseau’s work are presented for us to analyze woman’s civics’ education proposal. On this chapter the three main works (Emílio or Da Educação (1762) specially Book V; Júlia, or, the Nova Heloísa (1757) andEmile e Sophie or the Solitaries (1778)) are investigated. In conclusion, Rousseau praises women’s conduct that aim honor, virtue and morality on their actions and plans the young pupil’s education connected to the ideal formative planned to women. On the last chapter, we explore the three politics works (Do Contrato Social (1762), Projeto de Constituição para a Córsega (1764), Considerações Sobre o Governo da Polônia (1771)) and we theorized about the homeland love relations and about the citizen without woman’s civic education relation with the proper republic’s functioning purpose. The research drew on the descriptive and analytic methods of Rousseau’s pedagogical philosophy.