February, 11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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:
GUEST EDITOR´S NOTE ANALYSIS Marina de Vasconcellos and the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro: a study of the social circles Ribeiro, Adelia Maria Miglievich text in english Institutionalization of the sciences, gender system, and scientific production in Brazil (1939-1969) Ferreira, Luiz Otávio; Azevedo, Nara; Guedes, Moema; Cortes, Bianca abstract 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 abstract ‘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 abstract Women’s presence in undergraduate and graduate courses: deconstructing the idea of university as a male domain Guedes, Moema de Castro abstract The reign of hormones and the construction of gender differences Rohden, Fabíola text in english ‘Being a mother is a science’: women, physicians, and the construction of scientific maternity in the 1920s Freire, Maria Martha de Luna abstract Forbidden sexualities: madness and the male gender Engel, Magali Gouveia text in english IMAGES Female images in O Vulgarizador: science’s public and women in the nineteenth century Vergara, Moema de Rezende abstract INTERVIEW A road to science: the trajectory of the botanist Leda Dau Azevedo, Nara; Cortes, Bianca Antunes; Sá, Magali Romero abstract RESEARCH NOTES Insane women at the Hospício Nacional de Alienados (1900-1939) Facchinetti, Cristiana; Ribeiro, Andréa; Muñoz, Pedro F. de abstract Emília Snethlage (1868-1929): a german naturalist in the Amazon Junghans, Miriam abstract Female morbimortality in Puna jujeña: the potential for verbal autopsy Drovetta, Raquel Irene abstract SOURCES Mais mulheres na ciência: questões de conhecimento Schiebinger, Londa text in portuguese BOOKS & NETWORKS Women through history: body, soul, work and displacements Venancio, Ana Teresa A. text in portuguese Communicating the visibility of women in science Costa, Maria Conceição da text in portuguese Other readings about the vacuum bomb Lopes, Maria Margaret text in portuguese
