Mulheres, famílias docentes e educação no sul da Bahia

This work aims to analyze the presence of women working as teachers in the southern region of Bahia, specifically, in the axis between the city of Ilhéus and Itabuna, in the first decades of the 20th century. The newspapers Correio de Ilhéos, Diário da Tarde and A Voz do Sul. were used to collect source documents. Birth and death certificates, port and travel records available on the Family Search website were also consulted. The documentary analysis was guided by the name, a methodological operation suggested by Ginzburg (2007) to reach traces and clues of trajectories, through nominal search. This search allowed us to verify the circulation of teachers and the dissemination of their ideas throughout the region. There was a predominance of women in the profession of primary teachers in the places researched, teachers who actively occupied the spaces where debates about education took place, such as the press. The research revealed a network of families, in which teaching has become an occupation for generations. This fact was considered an indication of the power relationship established in the region through the training of subjects and through the occupation of educational positions.