This article highlights the elements for diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, in the women’s ward of the Malaga Provincial Psychiatric Hospital during the first half of the 20th century in Spain.

On Women’s International Day, we highlight interviews we did with women researchers for our blog. The topics covered are as varied as their research areas.

Hannah Woolley(1622 – c.1675) was an English writer who published early books on household management and cookery. This article by Marina Juliana de Oliveira Soares, Professor of Education in the Humanities at Faculdade SESI-São Paulo, describes the seventeenth-century English woman writer’s interest in medical care and highlights the importance of female protagonism in the dissemination of knowledge.

Una selección de artículos, en español y en inglés, de investigadoras sobre temas relacionados con la mujer.

On International Women Day, we selected articles that offer a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

This special issue of the journal “Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science” features a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

It analyses the female figures of the advertisements published in O Cruzeiro and Manchete magazines between the 1940s and 1960s.

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on the work of women in sciences and philosophy.

Preference will be given to projects that engage specifically with the history of women physicians, other health workers, or medical scientists.