IN SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF EDUCATION FEMALE: Philosophical contextualization of Classical Antiquity to the French Revolution (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The golden pommel is a mythological allegory representing inestimable value, providing immortality, or an insignia of great power, in this work, we understand it as a prominent personality, worthy of note and to be studied further, to elucidate its nuances and highlight its made throughout history. This bibliographic survey traces a brief historical context about female education, or rather, its defenders, mostly great philosophers and renowned writers. We started our presentation by the cradle of democracy, with Plato's thoughts and, conventionally accepted positions, reported by Plutarch, where the first defended greater rights and freedom for women and the second, despite following a middle platonic line of thought (transition phase between the skeptical platonism of the hellenistic period and the neoplatonism of the 3rd century), he described female education as an activity of the domestic scope and for the preparation of children. In antiquity, women had a reproductive function, preferably generating men to strengthen armies. We approach a little of the vise-familia still existing in ancient Rome. We arrive at the Middle Ages, with its religious peculiarities, attributing responsibility to Eve for the original sin. We pass by Cristina de Pisan, Maria de Gournay, François Poullain de La Barre, Madame de Rambouillet and Madeleine de Scudéry to reach the Enlightenment, a period that we highlight, Olympe de Gouges, Mary Astell, Daniel Defoe, the Blue Stockings and Mary Wollstonecraft.