Pogled katoliškega tiska na javno delovanje učiteljic na prehodu iz 19. v 20. stoletje

This article explores how newspapers responded to the public activities of female teachers in Slovenian territory at the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. Particular focus is given to the Catholic press and its treatment of women's education, their professional and emancipation demands, and the issue of celibacy among female teachers. After presenting the general context of the professionalisation and feminisation of the teacher profession, the article analyses selected newspaper debates and articles. It focuses on a series of articles entitled Female Teacher and the Public [Učiteljica in javnost], published in the education journal Slovenian Teacher [Slovenski učitelj] in 1900. The analysis reveals that not all forms of public engagement by female teachers were dismissed in Catholic discourse. Educational, religious, social, and charitable work was particularly emphasised as acceptable, whereas political, economic and personal emancipation was often considered a transgression of socially accepted boundaries.