| Revista: | Revista historia de la educación latinoamericana |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000360657 |
| ISSN: | 2256-5248 |
| Autores: | López Oseira, Ruth1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. España |
| Año: | 2002 |
| Número: | 4 |
| Paginación: | 1-24 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Histórico, analítico |
| Resumen en español | feminidad que correspondiera a los nuevos tiempos y a las necesidades de la mujer moderna. Pese al relativo fracaso histórico de las universidades femeninas en Colombia, su estudio no deja de ser interesante, y nos permitirá establecer comparaciones con otros contextos, como fue el caso de Estados Unidos, donde las universidades femeninas privadas tuvieron una importancia mayor que las universidades mixtas y estatales en la formación de las primeras generaciones de universitarias |
| Resumen en inglés | Recently, the work of Lucy Cohen, Colombianas en la vanguardia, has tackled the fight of Colombian women for the access to secondary education and university in the decades of 1920s and 1930s. Cohen remarks that these pioneer women, although they were a minority, opened the way to the next generation and contributed to fundamental social changes. These works are limited to the experiences of women who developed their careers in areas which had been monopolised by men, as odonthology, laws, medicine, etc. But, between 1945 and 1947, the Colegios Mayores de Cultura Femenina (High Colleges of Female Culture) were created in Colombia, known as Universidades Femeninas (Womens Universities). Those who promoted them attended the female request of a better education and professional training; and it was considered that it was a responsibility of the public policies to offer women alternatives to the male universities. They wondered if it was useful for women and suitable for society that women would follow the same curriculum which had been thought and designed for men. During these debates, as in promoting these womens universities, men and women participated; but the latter did enthusiastically. They were persuaded that certain professions and short careers were more suitable for women. Womens universities represented the attempt of some women to occupy spaces of power controlling these institutions; it was a way of offering real educational alternatives, which allowed women to make compatible their family and professional lives. It was a way of creating new patterns, convinced of that they by themselves had to make a new female pattern which corresponded to the new times and the modern womens needs. Even though the relative historical failure of womens universities in Colombia, analysing them is still interesting and will allow us to establish comparisons to other context, as it was the case of USA, where private womens universities had.. |
| Disciplinas: | Educación |
| Palabras clave: | Historia y filosofía de la educación, Ideología, Educación superior, Mujeres, Universidades femeninas, Género, Identidad femenina, Debate, Economía doméstica, Contenidos educativos |
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