Avioero iranilaisittain - Naisnäkökulmia islamilaiseen perheoikeuteen

Tutkielmani tavoitteena on valottaa naisen oikeudellista asemaa islamissa ja erityisesti Iranin islamilaisessa tasavallassa. Tutkin naisen oikeudellista asemaa avioeron kautta. Varsinainen tutkimustehtäväni on selvittää, millainen naisen asema Iranin islamilaisen tasavallan perheoikeuden valossa on sekä millaisia toimintamahdollisuuksia iranilaisilla naisilla on avioero-oikeudenkäynneissä. Selvitän, millä perusteilla islamilainen ja iranilainen perheoikeus sallivat naiselle avioeron ja millaiset mahdollisuudet naisilla on saada avioero Iranissa. Kysyn, tietävätkö avioeroa hakevat naiset oikeuksistaan ja edelleen, kuinka iranilaiset naiset käyttävät hyväkseen tuntemiaan itselleen edullisia lainkohtia avioero-oikeudenkäynneissään. Tavoitteeni on selvittää, millainen naisten oikeudellinen asema on ollut Iranissa ennen vallankumousta ja islamilaisen tasavallan aikana. Lisäksi selvitän, miten iranilaiset naiset ovat pyrkineet parantamaan asemaansa. Tutkielmani aineistona toimivat 1980- ja 1990-luvuilta peräisin olevien avioero-oikeudenkäyntien kirjalliset ja videoidut dokumentit. Tutkielmani menetelmänä käytän aineistolähtöistä, teemoitteluun perustuvaa sisällönanalyysia. Analyysissä nousee esiin kolme avioero-oikeudenkäyntien keskeistä teemaa: perusteet, joilla avioero on mahdollista saada, morsiusrahaan liittyvät kysymykset sekä lasten huoltajuuteen liittyvät kiistat. Tutkielmani vahvistaa yleisen käsityksen naisen ja miehen välisestä epätasa-arvosta suhteessa avioeronsaantiin islamissa ja Iranissa. Miehen on huomattavasti naista helpompaa saada avioero sekä islamilaisen lain että iranilaisen perheoikeuden mukaan. Iranilaiset naiset ovat aineistoni perusteella melko hyvin tietoisia niistä perusteista, joiden avulla heidän on mahdollista saada avioero. He käyttävät tätä tietoa hyväkseen avioeroa hakiessaan. Monet naiset käyttävät vahvaa retoriikka ja syyttävät miehiään kyseenalaisin perustein tuomioistuimessa saadakseen avioeron. Morsiusraha näyttäytyy tutkielmassani naisen vahvana neuvotteluvälineenä iranilaisissa avioero-oikeudenkäynneissä. Naiset ovat tietoisia oikeudestaan morsiusrahaan ja kiristävät sen avulla miehiä suostumaan avioeroon tai luopumaan lasten huoltajuudesta. Naiset ja miehet ovat islamilaisen perheoikeuden valossa hyvin epätasa-arvoisessa asemassa suhteessa lasten huoltajuuteen. Aivan pieniä lapsia lukuun ottamatta huoltajuus kuuluu isälle, joka tosin usein suostuu siihen, että lapset jäävät asumaan äitinsä luokse. Sitä tosiasiaa, että isä saisi lapset luokseen koska tahansa niin halutessaan ja että isä säilyy lasten asuinpaikasta riippumatta heidän laillisena holhoojanaan ja käytännössä voi päättää kaikesta lasta koskevasta, käytäntö ei kuitenkaan muuta. Iranilaiset naiset ovat koko 1900-luvun ajan toimineet aktiivisesti oikeuksiensa parantamiseksi. Mielikuva alistetusta musliminaisesta ei saa vahvistusta tutkielmani pohjalta. Naiset näyttäytyvät itsellisinä, aktiivisina ja vahvoina toimijoina, jotka tuntevat oikeutensa ja kykenevät toimimaan niiden hyväksi. Silloin kun laki ei anna naiselle riittäviä perusteita avioeronsaannille, morsiusrahan maksamiselle ja lasten huoltajuuden saamiselle ovat naiset valmiita kiertämään lakia ja käyttämään kyseenalaisiakin keinoja saavuttaakseen tavoitteensa.

Venäjän politiikka ja perustuslaki : Tutkimus Venäjän perustuslakikäsitteistön kehityksestä 1900-luvulla

Constitutional politics in Russia, a conceptual history study of the constitutional rhetoric in the 20th century In April 2006 the Russian Constitution had its 100th anniversary. Following its late start, five constitutions have been adopted. The great number of constitutions is partly explained in my work by the fact that Russia s political system has changed many times, from one state system to another. From a monarchical state power, it changed first, with the October revolution, into the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, and after that, in 1924, into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1991, the Russian Federation was established. The great number of constitutions can also be explained by the fact that in a one-party system, constitutional concepts became one of the most important instruments for introducing political programmes. When the political unity of the state was not only restricted by the Constitution, but also by the party ideology, the political debates concerning constitutional concepts were the key discussions for all the reformative pursuits of Soviet politics. It can be said that, in the Soviet Union, almost all political discourses dealt with constitutional concepts. In the context of restricted unity, the constitutional concepts were the most important tools to argue and create a basis for a new presentation and new political programmes. Thus, the basic feature of the Soviet political discourses has been a continuous competition regarding the constitutional concepts. By defining the constitutional concepts, a new, the political elites wanted especially to redefine, their own way, the traditional meanings of the October 1917 Revolution, and to differentiate them from those of the preceding period of power. From a methodological point of view, I argue that the Russian constitutional concepts make a conceptual historical approach very suitable, and change the focus on history. This approach studies history in contemporary contexts which follow after each other, and whose texts are the main research target. The picture of history is created through the interpretation of the original sources of contemporary contexts. Focusing on the dynamic and traditional characteristic of Russian constitutional concepts, I refer to a certain kind of value and the task of these concepts to justify and define the political and societal unity in every situation. This is done by combining the pursued future orientation of constitutional unity with the new acts of preservation of the traditional principles of the revolution. The different time layers of the constitutional concepts, the past, the present and the future, are the key aspects of storytelling in justifying the continuity and redefining the constitutional unity for the sake of reform. These aspects of constitutional concepts, in addition to all the other functions, have been the main elements of the argumentative structure of acting against opponents.

Kulutus, tieto, hallinta : Kulutuksen tilastoinnin muutokset 1900-luvun Suomessa

The aim of the study was to find out how the consumption of the population in Finland became a target of social interest and production of statistical data in the early 20th century, and what efforts have been made to influence consumption with social policy measures at different times. Questions concerning consumption are examined through the practices employed in the compilation of statistics on it. The interpretation framework in the study is Michael Foucault s perspective of modern liberal government. This mode of government is typified by pursuit of efficiency and search of equilibrium between economic government and a government of the processes of life. It shows aspirations towards both integration and individualisation. The government is based on freedom practices. It also implies knowledge-based ways of conceptualising reality. Statistical data are of specific significance in this context. The connection between the government of consumption and the compilation of statistics on it is studied through the theoretical, socio-political and statistical conceptualisation of consumption. The research material consisted of Finnish and international documentation on the compilation of statistics on consumption, publications of social programmes, and reports of studies on consumption. The analysis of the material focused especially on the problematisations related to consumption found in these documents and on changes in them over history. There have been both clearly observable changes and as well as historical stratification and diversity in the rationalities and practices of consumption government during the 20th century. Consumption has been influenced by pluralistic government, based at different times and in varying ways on the logics of solidarity and markets. The difference between these is that in the former risks are prepared for collectively while in the latter risks are individualised. Despite the differences, the characteristic that is common to these logics is certain kind of contractuality. They are both permeated by the household logic which differs from them in that it is based on the normative and ethical demands imposed on an individual. There has been a clear interactive connection between statistical data and consumption government. Statistical practices have followed changes in the way consumption has been conceptualised in society. This has been reflected in the statistical phenomena of interest, concepts, classifications and indicators. New ways of compiling statistics have in their turn shaped perceptions of reality. Statistical data have also facilitated a variety of rational calculations with which the consequences of the population s consumption habits have been evaluated at the levels of economy at large and individuals.

Stor Anna, Liten Anna och tio andra personporträtt : Om innehållsliga och språkliga mönster i en mediegenres kvinnobeskrivningar

The aim of this licentiate thesis is to analyse how femininity is constructed in twelve portrait interviews of women in the dailies Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm) and Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki) in September 1996, and to explore the portrait interview as a media genre. The qualitative analysis has a feminist and constructionist perspective and is connected to critical text analysis. It was carried out on two levels: first, femininity is identified on the linguistic level by choice of words, and second on the level of content (topical motifs/themes). The portrait interview as a genre constitutes a third dimension in the analysis: The aim is not towards the identification of femininity, but rather towards the identification of the portrait interview a relatively unexplored media genre. References (Swedish: omtal) to the principal character (or protagonist) are traced mainly through reference chains which consist of names, pronouns and substantive phrases. The interviewees were referred to by their full names in Dagens Nyheter (with the exception of the oldest and youngest interviewees, both of whom were mainly referred to by their first names), while the style of reference varied more in Hufvudstadsbladet. The position of the principal character was also analysed through her relation in the text to minor characters from her working life and from her private life. These minor characters maintained their subordinate positions in all of the portraits except that of the youngest principal character, in which the subsidiary voices became at least as strong as the voice of the principal character. Three frequently-recurring topical motifs occurred in the portraits: The first involved explanations for the principal character s success divided into three categories, agent, affect and ambition, the second concerned using journeys or trips as symbols for turning points in life, and the third referred to the ambiguity in the contradiction between private (family/other private life) and public (work) life. This ambiguity is connected to the portrait interview as a text type (genre) which features conclusions at the end of portraits, which in turn is characteristic of reportage. However, the analysis showed that the conclusions of the portrait interviews often also included elements of ambiguity. This was evident in the contradictions be14 tween private and public life that arose in the portrait interviews that focused on these two spheres. The portraits that focused on the principal character s public life showed ambiguity on a more general level concerning questions about being a woman and having a profession, and they often ended with a description of some details of her private life. The women in the portraits were all constructed as being successful, in terms of having achieved direct success, reflective success or success in the form of life wisdom. The women of direct success were described as ambitious individuals with no sidetracks on their life paths, while those of reflective success were described as active heroines who had received help from different agents, who could use their affects as enriching ingredients in life, but who in the end had control over their own lives (life stories). The elderly women were constructed as having achieved life wisdom and their portraits were focused upon the past. The portrait interview as a genre is characterised by journalistic freedom (in relation to the more strict news genre), by a now room (Swedish nurum ) where the journalist meets the principal character (usually via spoken dialogue that she or he transforms into written text to be read by a mass-media audience) and by the relatively closed structure of the portrait. The portrait is relatively independent in relation to the news genre and in relation to the context of what has previously been written, what is being written at the time and what will be written in the future the principal character does not need to belong to the newspaper s usual gallery of actors. Furthermore, the principal character is constructed as being independent in relation to the subsidiary characters and other media actors. The conflict is within the principal character herself and within her life story, unlike the news genre in which equal actors are in conflict with each other. The portrait is also independent in relation to the news lifespan; the publishing timetable is not as strict as in the news genre, but is still dependent on the factors initiating the portrait. The enclosures consist of a raw analysis of two of twelve portrait interviews and of copies of all portraits.

Lähteiden lumoamat : Henry Biaudet, Liisi Karttunen ja suomalainen historiantutkimus Roomassa 1900-luvun alussa

Enchanted by Sources. Henry Biaudet, Liisi Karttunen and Finnish Historical Research in Rome in the Early Twentieth Century This study traces the scholarly endeavours of Henry Biaudet (1870 1915) and Liisi Karttunen (1880 1957) and "La mission historique finlandaise à Rome" which they founded in 1909. They are forgotten in Finnish historiography, but remain internationally renowned for their contribution to the nunciature studies. By investigating their historical work on the Counter- Reformation era, their roles in the scientific communities of Helsinki and Rome as well as the intersection of politics and science in their scholarly practices the study explores the nature of historical research in general at the turn of the twentieth century. The work covers fields such as historiography, university history and the political use of history. Methodologically the research is based on the analysis and contextualization of published and unpublished sources (e.g. correspondences, university records, scholarly publications and reviews in academic journals). Henry Biaudet criticized the previous research on the Nordic Counter-Reformation for its narrow national scope and sources. He sought out a new approach, including the use of sources in archives all over Europe and the inclusion of the Catholic viewpoint. Accordingly, Biaudet and Karttunen searched for records in archives in Southern Europe. Their unorthodox interpretations were denounced in Finland since the picture they gave of late sixteenth-century Sweden was too different from the national narrative. Moreover, Finnish national identity was firmly rooted in Protestantism, and questioning the benevolence of the Reformation and its main actors was considered as an attack not only against historical truth but also national values. The comparison between Biaudet s and Karttunen s arguments and the accepted narrative in Finland shows how traditional interpretations of the Nordic Reformation were influenced by the Lutheran ethos and European anticlerical rhetoric. Historians have recently paid substantial attention to the political use of history, usually focusing on politicized constructions of the national past. This study shows how research that met the criteria of modern historiography also served political purposes. Conducting research in an international community of historians and publishing ambitious scholarly studies that interested an international audience were ways to create a positive image of Finland abroad. These were not uniquely Finnish ideas but rather ideas shared by the international community of historians in Rome. In this context, scientific pursuits were given a clear political meaning. This enhances our understanding of nineteenth-century historiography being firmly rooted between science and politics.

Variation i kvinnors namnfraser i officiella dokument i Helsingfors 1780-1930 : Socioonomastiska synvinklar på makt och identitet

This dissertation is an onomastic study of variation in women s name phrases in official documents in Finland during the period 1780−1930. The aim is to discuss from a socio-onomastic perspective both the changeover from patronymics to inherited family names and the use of surnames after marriage (i.e. whether women adopted their husbands family names or retained their maiden names), before new laws in this area entered into force in Finland in the early 20th century. In 1920, a law on family names that required fixed names put an end to the use of the patronymic as a person s only surname. After 1929, it was no longer possible for a married woman to retain her maiden name. Methodologically, to explain this development from a socio-onomastic perspective, I have based my study on a syntactic-semantic analysis of the actual name phrases. To be able to demonstrate the extensive material, I have elaborated a scheme to divide the 115 different types of name phrases into 13 main categories. The analysis of the material for Helsinki is based on frequency calculations of the different types of name phrases every thirtieth year, as well as on describing variation in the structure and semantic content of the name phrases, e.g. social variation in the use of titles and epithets. In addition to this, by applying a biographic-genealogical method, I have conducted two case studies of the usage of women s name phrases in the two chosen families. The study is based on parish registers from the period 1780−1929, estate inventory documents from the period 1780−1928, registration forms for liberty of trade from the period 1880−1908, family announcements on newspapers from the period 1829−1888, gravestones from the period 1796−1929 and diaries from the periods 1799−1801 and 1818−1820 providing a corpus of 5 950 name phrases. The syntactic-semantic analysis has revealed the overall picture of various ways of denoting women in official documents. In Helsinki, towards the end of the 19th century, the use of inherited family names seems to be almost fully developed in official contexts. At the late 19th century, a patronymic still appears as the only surname of some working-class women whereas in the early 20th century patronymics were only entered in the parish register as a kind of middle name. In the beginning of the 19th century, most married women were still registered under their maiden names, with a few exceptions among the bourgeoisie and upper class. The comparative analysis of name phrases in diaries, however, indicates that the use of the husband s family name by married women was a much earlier phenomenon in private contexts than in official documents. Keywords: socio-onomastics, syntactic-semantic analysis, name phrase, patronymic, maiden name, husband s family name

Lokia etsimässä : Viisi teoriaa muinaisskandinaavisen Lokin hahmosta

Loki on muinaisskandinaavisen mytologian monimutkaisimpia hahmoja. Keskiaikaiset lähteet Lokista ovat runo- ja Snorrin Edda sekä skaldirunot. Moderneja kansansanontoja on myös käytetty tutkimuksessa Lokin hahmosta, mutta osa tutkijoista vastustaa niiden käyttöä ajallisen ja usein maantieteellisen eroavaisuuden takia verrattuna keskiaikaiseen Lokiin. Analysoimalla Axel Olrikin, Hilding Celanderin, Jan de Vriesin, Georges Dumézilin sekä Anna Birgitta Roothin teorioita Lokista selvitän, minkälaiset teoreettiset lähtökohdat Lokin hahmon tutkimuksesta ovat vallinneet 1900-luvulla ja miten he ovat käyttäneet keskiaikaisia ja moderneja lähteitä. Lisäksi tarkastelen sitä, miten näiden tutkijoiden teoriat ovat vaikuttaneet uudempaan tutkimukseen Lokista. Metodinani käytän systemaattista analyysia. Olrik lähestyi Lokin hahmoa maantieteellis-historiallisen metodin kautta jaotellen myytit Lokista joko Odinn-Loki- tai Thorr-Loki-ryhmään. Hänen johtopäätöstensä perusteella Loki on lähtökohtaisesti Prometheus-tyypin hahmo, joka on ensin yhdistetty Thorriin ja myöhemmin Odinniin. Celanderin mukaan Loki on alun perin haltija, ja hän lähestyy aineistoaan Lokin nimestä tehtyjen etymologisten johtopäätösten kautta yhdistäen teoriaansa moderneja luonnonilmiöihin liittyviä sanontoja. de Vries käyttää metodinaan filologista menetelmää ja hän näkee Lokissa kulttuuriheeroksen ja tricksterin. Dumézilin näkemyksen pohjana on hänen teoriansa kolmiosaisesta indoeurooppalaisesta yhteisöstä. Dumézil vertaa Lokia kaukasuslaiseen Syrdon-hahmoon löytäen näiden väliltä useita yhtäläisyyksiä. Rooth pyrkii löytämään mahdollisimman alkuperäisen Lokin hahmon karsimalla myyteistä muualta tulleet vaikutteet. Hänen mukaansa Loki on ollut alun perin hämähäkin hahmoinen trickster, josta olisi jäänyt merkkejä kansanperinteeseen. Johtopäätöksenäni totean, että Lokin tutkimukseen ovat vaikuttaneet ainakin diffusionistinen metodi, filologinen ja strukturalistinen lähestymistapa sekä varhaisemmat 1800-luvun teoriat kuten Frazerin ja Müllerin uskontoteoriat. Keskiaikaisista lähteistä Snorrin Eddan luotettavuudesta on syntynyt eniten keskustelua, etenkin Baldr-myytin tulkinnan kannalta. Sen sijaan skaldirunojen ja runo-Eddan luotettavuutta ei ole kyseenalaistettu yhtä useasti. Modernien lähteiden luotettavuudesta tutkijat eivät ole päässeet yksimielisyyteen. Myöhempään tutkimukseen on vaikuttanut erityisesti käsitys Lokista tricksterinä. Celanderin ja Roothin etymologinen lähestymistapa on osaltaan vaikuttanut uudempaan tutkimukseen ja tulkintaan Lokista abstraktina hahmona, kuten myös de Vriesin kriittisyys moderneja lähteitä kohtaan. Dumézilin teorian vaikea soveltuvuus trickster-hahmojen tulkitaan on vähentänyt viittauksia häneen myöhemmässä Loki-tutkimuksessa eikä Olrikin maantieteellistä jaottelua näe enää uudemmassa tutkimuskirjallisuudessa. Jotkin teemat ovat jääneet vähemmälle huomiolle tutkimuksessa, kuten kenningien eli runollisten metaforien vähäinen liittyminen Lokiin sekä Lokin suhde jättiläisiin. Jatkotutkimuksen kannalta näiden teemojen syventäminen Lokin hahmon ymmärtämisessä olisi aiheellista. Lisäksi tutkimushistorian tuntemusta Lokin tutkimuksessa olisi mahdollista syventää vielä entisestään selvittämällä esimerkiksi kansallissosialistisen ilmapiirin vaikutusta mytologian tutkimuksessa.

Entre gauchos y gringos. Costumbres nacionales y extranjeras en Santa Fe (1880-1900)

La política de fomento inmigratorio impulsada en la Argentina a partir de mediados del siglo XIX incluyó, entre sus objetivos, el de generar un cambio de costumbres en la población nativa. En este artículo, además de describirse la realidad resultante como consecuencia de la incorporación de pautas culturales foráneas, se analizan –desde un recorte espacial santafesino centrado en las dos últimas décadas del siglo XIX– comportamientos puestos de manifiesto por las élites políticas e intelectuales de la provincia con respecto a las costumbres nacionales y extranjeras. Lo que se busca es evaluar si dichos comportamientos pudieron encontrarse condicionados por las diferentes adscripciones político-ideológicas y/o por las variantes circunstancias históricas.

El abastecimiento de agua corriente en la ciudad de Córdoba (1900-1910) : continuidad y cambio en la gestión

Resumen: Desde un punto de vista general el agua es definida en la actualidad como un recurso natural no renovable en cantidad, recuperable en calidad y con posibilidad de nuevo uso (re-uso) en continua mutación dentro del ciclo hidrológico. A la vez posee las categorías de bien común como elemento esencial para la vida humana y que como tal no tiene precio, y de recurso hídrico con dimensión económica como insumo, que supone un valor mensurable. Los recursos hídricos y su gestión forman parte de la administración pública, como pueden serlo la energía o la salud. La organización adecuada de un servicio, y las formas institucionales a través de las que se presta, varían de acuerdo a las épocas, los costes tecnológicos, los de distribución, organización y regulación, resultando un aspecto importante del análisis la implementación y funcionamiento del servicio público. Atendiendo a estos aspectos teóricos, este trabajo continua con la problemática del abastecimiento de agua corriente en la ciudad de Córdoba, ahora en la primera década del siglo XX, manteniendo el supuesto de que las dificultades para el abastecimiento de agua obedecen a razones de orden natural, a dificultades económicas y a enfrentamientos políticos, en el marco de un Estado que aún posee limitaciones de índole institucional y administrativo, por lo cual intervendrán el gobierno provincial y Nacional para la concreción de las obras de salubridad, en una ciudad y un país enrolados en el proceso de modernización impulsado por el deseo de adecuación al modelo de vida europeo. Seguimos analizando las fuentes inéditas del Archivo Histórico Municipal de Córdoba, fuentes oficiales editas, publicaciones periódicas y bibliografía tanto general como específica.

Estudios sobre población urbana en el siglo XX : nacer y morir en Rosario, 1900-1925

Resumen: El objetivo de este estudio es el de examinar las fuentes históricas que permitan conocer, además de la composición poblacional y la estructura ocupacional, las causas de enfermedad y muerte, que reflejen algunas alternativas del desenvolvimiento de la comunidad rosarina, de la vida corriente del habitante de la ciudad, en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, momento en que se inicia aquí el proceso denominado de transición demográfica.

La modernización urbana de Mondragón hacia 1900: la contribución de Pedro de Viteri

[ES] Pedro de Viteri (Mondragón, 1833-Biarritz, 1908) llegó a su villa natal en 1893, después de haber vivido en Francia desde que era un niño. Volvió con el ánimo de emprender una labor filantrópica que cambió la fisonomía urbana de Mondragón, imprimiendo un aire nuevo y moderno a una villa que a la sazón distaba mucho del ambiente en el que él se había movido.

Collecção das Leis da Republica dos Estados Unidos do Brazil de 1900

Parte 1 - Atos do Poder Legislativo.

Nueva documentación sobre el primer nacionalismo vasco: correspondencia inédita de Sabino Arana con Luis de Eleizalde (1900-1902)

[ES] En el Archivo General de la Universidad de Navarra, dentro del Fondo Luis de Eleizalde, se conservan un telegrama y ocho cartas de Sabino Arana Goiri al propio Eleizalde, fechadas entre el 3 de diciembre de 1900 y el 21 de agosto de 1902. Se trata de una documentación inédita, de gran interés para conocer diversos aspectos de la ideología y la acción política y cultural del fundador del nacionalismo vasco en los últimos años de su vida. Las cartas aportan nuevos datos sobre las difíciles relaciones de Arana con los fueristas del semanario Euskalduna, su participación en el Congreso de Hendaya para la unificación ortográfica del euskera, las publicaciones periódicas creadas por él (en especial la revista cultural Euzkadi), su controvertida evolución españolista de 1902, etc.

The development of freshwater science in Britain, and British contributions abroad, 1900-2000

This article outlines the development of freshwater science between 1900 and 2000 and in particular traces British contributions, both to a deepened knowledge of specifics and to their interrelation as environmental and ecological science. The author provides a selected bibliography of important publications relevant to the topic of the article.

Por meio da resistência: processo de profissionalização docente no Manifesto Ao Professorado de Minas (1900)

Examinar o Manifesto Ao Professorado de Minas publicado no Jornal do Commercio em fins de 1900 consiste no horizonte deste trabalho. Este esforço significou pensar a participação dos professores, bem como suas ações, atuações e reações, anteriores e posteriores à produção do Manifesto, como constituintes do processo de profissionalização docente. Endereçado Ao Professorado de Minas, tinha como teor principal o apelo pela união. Traçou-se uma discussão sobre o seu conteúdo, a partir de questões emergentes do texto, como a menção a criação de uma associação docente. Somado a isso, procurou-se entender as condições de trabalho dos professores signatários e dos não partícipes do documento, no sentido de perceber as normatizações a que estavam sujeitos, na tentativa de elucidar o que significava ser professor naquele momento e que poderia ter incentivado a produção do Manifesto. Buscou-se, ainda, construir a trajetória dos quatro signatários a partir das relações que possuíam na cidade de Juiz de Fora, os espaços que frequentavam e os cargos ocupados por eles antes e depois da publicação do Manifesto. Para isso, foi preciso perceber a presença dos quatro professores em um conjunto documental variado e disperso, o que empreendeu um esforço de cruzamento das fontes, e possibilitou esboçar a trajetória desses sujeitos a partir dos lugares ocupados por eles. Por fim, empreendeu-se um movimento de reflexão sobre o público a que o Manifesto se destinava, no caso, os professores. Percebeu-se um universo de atuação desses sujeitos na cidade a partir de queixas e solicitações, assim como, de pessoas que não atuavam na profissão docente, mas que reconheciam a importância dos professores e da instrução pública, a exemplo de moradores. Utilizou-se de fontes como o Jornal do Commercio e o Correio de Minas, importantes periódicos mineiros. A trajetória dos professores foi construída a partir dos requerimentos, correspondências de professores com a Câmara Municipal, relatórios de inspetores escolares e abaixo assinados de moradores. O estudo concluiu que as ações, reações e as diversas formas de agir dos professores, inclusive o Manifesto, se constituíram como um movimento importante do processo de profissionalização da docência e do fazer-se da categoria. Pretende contribuir, deste modo, para o campo da História da Educação, incorporando-se aos estudos que tratam do estatuto da profissão docente.