Yolanda Oreamuno: el derecho a pensar

En 1938, al participar en el concurso organizado por el Colegio de Señoritas, Yolanda Oreamuno, con 22 años de edad y en calidad de ex alumna, respondería a la consulta de esa importante institución de educación femenina costarricense: Medios que Ud. sugiere al Colegio para liberar a la mujer costarricense de la frivolidad ambiente. Si bien no obtuvo un primer lugar en el concurso, cuando su respuesta fue publicada por el Editor del Repertorio Americano, Joaquín García Monge, se rebelaría en el escrito y en la personalidad de la autora, una insoslayable posición de crítica al destino previsto para las mujeres en la sociedad patriarcal. Palabras claves: Yolanda Oreamuno, pensamiento femenino, pensamiento feminista. Abstract In 1938, Yolanda Oreamuno, 22 years old, as a graduated woman from the Colegio Superior de Señoritas, took part in an opinion pool contest, organized by that paramount Costa Rican women school. The inquire was: What are the means that you suggest to the School to free Costa Rican women from frivolous influences. Yolanda’s response did not reach any of the contest first places. However, when her writing was published by Joaquín García Monge, Editor of Repertorio Americano, Yolanda’s response would reveal, as well as her personality, her unavoidable critique to the female destiny in patriarchal societies. Key words: Yolanda Oreamuno, female thought, feminist thought.

The Dyad School Success/Failure in the Academic Development of the Working Class Women from Mendoza

The notion of academic performance renders account of the results achieved by the students during their school education.  Internally, there are two opposed phenomena:  school success and school failure.  Sociology of education has contributed to the discussion of both notions revealing their social nature closely related to the institutional and socio-cultural contexts in which education is developed.  This paper is the result of a research project conducted for our doctoral thesis.  Its purpose is to contribute to enlighten the scopes of this discussion, by analyzing the school development of a group of working class women from Mendoza. We were interested, in the first place, in knowing the reasons why they quit school when they were young girls or adolescents.  Subsequently, we have approached the opportunities they had to access the system again during their adulthood, the obstacles they had to face and the resources to be able to complete the medium level.