Women historians and the struggle for academic visibility

Abstract

In books and collections of texts that address the biographical profile and historiographical contribution of the great exponents of history writing, the presence of female historians is very timid. Realizing this invisibility, veiled or explicit, historians who dedicate themselves to researching and writing the history of women and gender relations have constituted spaces of academic visibility in Postgraduate Programs, in Study and Research Groups and even organizing collections of texts in book format, presenting the academic trajectory of dozens of Brazilian historians. The text is also a survey of historiographical production on the theme of Women's History, highlighting the pioneering spirit of fine historians in the emergence and strengthening of the research area in Brazil, whose volume of studies produced and published is not small, having as a contribution theoretical and methodological the writings of other historians and social scientists, such as Joan Scott, Louise Tilly, Michelle Perrot and Judith Butler. The writing of women's history, inside and outside Brazil, from the middle of the 20th century, was not done without breaking traditions inside and outside the academy, it was not done without fighting against prejudices and machismo within Postgraduate Programs.