Maria Amabini de Moraes (Dona Fiica) : uma trajetória de vida e serviços ao desenvolvimento educacional, cultural e social do Sul de Goiás (1925-1960)

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the life trajectory of Maria Amabini de Moraes (wife of Senator Hermenegildo Lopes de Moraes) and her contributions to educational, cultural and social development, in the municipality of Morrinhos and southern Goiás between the years 1925 and 1960. Period in which the city was an important political, economic and cultural center with emphasis on education due to the Gymnasiums Senador Hermenegildo de Moraes and D. Maria Amabini de Moraes, educational institutions that were built by Maria Amabini during the 1930s and 1940s. To this end, in addition to documentary sources, questionnaires were applied to the teachers and functions of the Senator Hermenegildo de Moraes Gymnasium, to attest their knowledge about Maria Amabini and enntrevistas with people who had direct contact with Maria Amabini, who became popularly known as Dona Fiica and who was attested to the recognition of its importance inthe history and development of the city and region. The research revealed that, despite its importance, over the years the memory of this important female personality and its actions for education, culture and social has fallen into oblivion, remaining only, in the memory of few people still alive who had counted directly or indirandto with it. This also leads to reflecting on the definitions of memory and forgetfulness, as well as the analysis of the historical and cultural factors of a patriarchal society that seek to keep the role of women always on the margins of history by placing them in the condition of extras and, not necessarily, personalities of the historical process.