February, 11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
HCSM vol 15 Supplement, June 2008
This special dossier of HCS-Manguinhos published in 2008 is entirely dedicated to gender, women and science. It was originated in the International Seminar Making Gender 7 – Gender and Preconceptions, which took place at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in August 2006.
The symposium focused on the dissemination and debate of historical studies regarding gender relations in the natural and exact sciences, topics that are present in this dossier. See the full edition on gender and science:
ANALYSIS
Marina de Vasconcellos and the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro: a study of the social circles
Ribeiro, Adelia Maria Miglievich
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Institutionalization of the sciences, gender system, and scientific production in Brazil (1939-1969)
Ferreira, Luiz Otávio; Azevedo, Nara; Guedes, Moema; Cortes, Bianca
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Prominence in the media, renown in the sciences: the construction of a paradigmatic feminist and a scientist at Rio de Janeiro’s Museu Nacional
Lopes, Maria Margaret
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‘Young women and lady dentists’: training, degrees, and the market in the first decades of the Republic
Mott, Maria Lucia; Alves, Olga Sofia Fabergé; Muniz, Maria Aparecida; Martino, Luiz Vicente Souza; Santos, Ana Paula Ferreira; Maestrini, Karla
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Women’s presence in undergraduate and graduate courses: deconstructing the idea of university as a male domain
Guedes, Moema de Castro
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The reign of hormones and the construction of gender differences
Rohden, Fabíola
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‘Being a mother is a science’: women, physicians, and the construction of scientific maternity in the 1920s
Freire, Maria Martha de Luna
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Forbidden sexualities: madness and the male gender
Engel, Magali Gouveia
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IMAGES
Female images in O Vulgarizador: science’s public and women in the nineteenth century
Vergara, Moema de Rezende
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INTERVIEW
A road to science: the trajectory of the botanist Leda Dau
Azevedo, Nara; Cortes, Bianca Antunes; Sá, Magali Romero
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RESEARCH NOTES
Insane women at the Hospício Nacional de Alienados (1900-1939)
Facchinetti, Cristiana; Ribeiro, Andréa; Muñoz, Pedro F. de
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Emília Snethlage (1868-1929): a german naturalist in the Amazon
Junghans, Miriam
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Female morbimortality in Puna jujeña: the potential for verbal autopsy
Drovetta, Raquel Irene
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SOURCES
Mais mulheres na ciência: questões de conhecimento
Schiebinger, Londa
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BOOKS & NETWORKS
Women through history: body, soul, work and displacements
Venancio, Ana Teresa A.
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Communicating the visibility of women in science
Costa, Maria Conceição da
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Other readings about the vacuum bomb
Lopes, Maria Margaret
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