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| Author(s): |
Mariana Moraes de Oliveira Sombrio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2007-10-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Margaret Lopes;
Nara Margareth Silva Azevedo;
Magali Romero Sa
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| Advisor: | Léa Maria Leme Strini Velho; Maria Margaret Lopes |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation discusses the participation of women in sciences with the objective of understand which conditions, factors and strategies had influenced the feminine access to Brazilian¿s scientific institutions at the beginning of 20th century. To elaborate this study we analyzed the trajectory of the scientist and feminist, Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (18941976), contemplating mainly its performance as representative of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro in the ¿Brazilian Inspection Council on Artistic and Scientific Expeditions¿, between the years of 1939 and 1951. Bertha Lutz was one of the first Brazilian women civil servant, after being approved in a public competition for the position of ¿secretary¿ of the National Museum, in 1919. In this same year, she created a feminist association entitled ¿League for the Intellectual Emancipation of Woman¿ and, since then, dedicated herself intensely to practice sciences and to the feminist movement. A few years later, she left the position of ¿secretary¿ to assume the position of naturalist, and consolidated a steady and well-succeeded career in natural sciences. As member of Inspection Council, she took part in the process of formulating national scientific policies, process that was just starting in Brazil. Based on the recurrent idea present in the bibliography on gender and sciences and women¿s history that the feminine participation in sciences was more important than we imagine, but there are few registers and a small number of analyses about this experiences, we consider that to rescue and to analyze trajectories of women that had worked as scientists, relating these experiences with its specific contexts, are an important contribution and can help the understanding of the different ways in which the gender influenced and it continues to influence the construction of sciences, and to reflect about the social, economical and political influences, that affects the scientific activity (AU) | |