The book is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in 1928 claiming space for women’s writers within a literary tradition dominated by men.
This article published in HCS-Manguinhos (vol.27 no.1 Jan./Mar. 2020) presents a partial historiographical review of the history of women, science, and medicine, specially a field of studies that intersects politically with feminism and has been written mostly by women.
In Women, male doctors, and female historians, published in the latest issue of Manguinhos (vol.27 Jan./Mar. 2020), historian Ana Paula Vosne Martins, profesor at Universidade Federal do Paraná, presents some of the most important works and approaches that marked this historiography with a focus on writings in the English language.
1987, University of California Press.
The article also describes the historical context in which this scholarship was produced, the topics that were defined, and the field’s theoretical references, sources, and research problems.
This historiography of women and gender established itself in the second half of the twentieth century. The topics covered by the literature reviewed in this article range from womens oppression throughout history, representations of the female body and the relations between medicine, science, and culture.
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Published in 1992, this is a study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s.
Published in 1992, this is a study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s
Las mujeres en HCS-Manguinhos – Una selección de artículos, en español y en inglés, de investigadoras sobre temas relacionados con la mujer.
