Sociabilidades femeninas en Zacatecas, 1868-1906. Educación y asistencia social para las mujeres pobres

Abstract

This article discusses the actions of women's associations of the city of Zacatecas from 1868 to 1906 as part of the social historiography which aims to observe the relationship between sociality and political modernity to think of women as a sector active in two areas of the public sphere: education and culture. Since the beginning of the differential part of the recognition of relationships between unequal, in this case, the women of the upper class and the women of the proletariat, the political character of the secular movement in Mexico is based from the second half of the 19th century, in a pre-capitalist urban environment that secularized work and given to the poor protectionism.

In Zacatecas, the Association of ladies of The pure heart of Mary and The sacred heart of Mary drew up the register of poor families to bring charity to certain homes; the female Angel of the home Association set up workshops for poor working women; distinguished teachers enabled adult school to instruct "the village women" and the ladies of the upper class, in his capacity as directors of haven girls, inspired the ideological change of the model objects through instruction for work upper primary education and normalista education.

The methodology of this research was based on the categories of sociability, charity and philanthropy, historical collections and literature in the field of social history. Sociability, understood as the fitnees of living in groups and to consolidate groups throught the establishment of voluntary associations of formal and informal kind operating in the urban world and encourage the recognition of herarchical relations or the pairs that express fraternitu and militancy in favor of the defense of the objective abd sujective components of class consciouness. [i]