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Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, female education was an object of concern and intervention, being creating numerous institutions dedicated to educating women. In this context, Escola Doméstica was created with the objective of training housewives, a school exclusively for women, based on scientific and modern assumptions imported from European schools. Therefore, this article aims to identify the disciplinarization practices used by the Escola Doméstica to educate the senses and sensibilities of its students between 1914 and 1945. For that matter, as a methodology, it was used a Discourse Analysis, inspired by Michel Foucault (1999; 2008), recognizing the school as a disciplinary institution that produces discourses about femininity, by offering a training course for housewives, based on the scientific knowledge that aimed women as bodies to be docilized to fulfill a supposed female destiny.