Grands penseurs en éducation- Juana Paula Manso (anglais)
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The following text is taken from Prospects (UNESCO, International Bureau of Education)
vol.
XXXV, no.
1, March 2005, p.
117-132.
©UNESCO:International Bureau of Education, 2005
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The following text is taken from Prospects (UNESCO, International Bureau of Education)
vol.
XXXV, no.
1, March 2005, p.
117-132.
©UNESCO:International Bureau of Education, 2005
This document may be reproduced free of charge as long as acknowledgement is made of the source.
JUANA P.
MANSO
(1819–75)
Myriam Southwell
I know that in the period I live in, in my country I am an orphan soul or an exotic plant
unable to acclimatize.
(Juana Manso, letter to Mary Mann, 1869.
)
We have a sad experience of how important it is to spread learning to the masses, if this had
been the first step after May 1810, and if there had been a clean break with the traditions of
the past to emancipate reason as all men had been emancipated, perhaps neither so much
blood would have soaked these lands; nor so many tears been shed.
(Manso, 1854.
)
Juana Paula Manso, who was born in Buenos Aires on 26 June 1819 and died on 24 April
1875 in the same city, was a writer, translator, journalist, teacher and precursor of feminism in
Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
In 1840 she moved with her family to Montevideo (Uruguay),
exiled under the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was governing the territory of the
United Provinces of the River Plate.
During Rosas’ conservative government in Argentina,
liberals were persecuted and many had to flee into exile.
Subsequently, due to political
pressure from Rosas, the Manso family moved to Rio de Janeiro, returning some time later to
Montevideo.
In Rio de Janeiro, Juana married and travelled with her husband around the
United States and Cuba.
Later, in 1853, she returned from exile to Buenos Aires, but without
her husband; this was followed by another attempt to live in Brazil (in 1854) and she finally
settled in Buenos Aires in 1859.
From May 1810 to 1820 the territory of the United Provinces of the River Plate—
which included present-day Uruguay—endured the wars of independence from Spain.
From
that time until well into the 1850s and 1860s, this territory was marked by wars of
independence, disputes with neighbouring countries, and then civil wars over the way the
State, the nation and the government of the new, incipiently independent country should be
constituted.
Within this scenario, the broad territory was divided into regions run by Creole
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