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The Republic School and ‘Secularism(la laïcité)’ in the Early Third Republic of France: the Necessity of the Education of Women and Theirs roles

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2009, (21), pp.97~115
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Shin Haeng-Seon 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article deals with the French republicans’ interest in women’s education. The great Jules Ferry laws, making primary education free, mandatory and secular, were designed to ensure the future of democracy and to guarantee social stability. But the uniqueness of the republic school rested on the secularism of the school. The object of the republicans was essentially to keep the French young people, especially girls, from the influence of Catholic Chruch. That is why the republicans were interested in the education of girls. They instituted the secondary schools for girls and opened teacher-training college to women. However, the republication’s creation of an educational system for women did not necessarily mean that they were seriously interested in the improvement of women’s right. Women were still not allowed to take part in public life. Women were expected to be nothing more than mothers, the most important role of whom was to educate their sons raise them as good citizens and soldiers of the Republic. The republicans’ promotion of women’s education had a noticeable limit in terms of women’s right.

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