As cientistas mulheres na Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência : uma perspectiva da inserção feminina em comunidade científica (1948-1958)

Abstract

The present analysis has as its theme the insertion of women scientists in the scientific community (mainly São Paulo and biochemistry) in the post-war context of the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil (1948-1958); by mapping the existence of these women in the initial period of activities of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC). Among the factors examined are the areas where scientists perform the most, how their professional trajectories were and how they published. The argument made here is that not including women scientists in the examination of epistemic activity can lead to a poor understanding of the production of knowledge by the scientific communities where these researchers were present. This work is organized in two chapters: (1) Delineations, erasures and smudges: representations of pioneer women scientists, in which SBPC's institutional narrative about itself and about the pioneers in Brazilian science is revisited. And (2) The emptiness over the full: how are women scientists?, which analyzes female participation in the community, by scrutinizing the volumes of Ciência e Cultura magazine from 1949 to 1958. The result is a delineation of the concepts of traditional, feminine, masculine and extended pioneering. Understanding the numerous work force of women scientists in the Brazilian scientific community in the context of molecular biology in the 1950s. And also the manifesto of Olga Boholometz Henriques, Sylvia Oliveira de Andrade and Eline Sant'Anna Prado's participation in the history of Bradicinina as fact developed by the São Paulo biochemical community from the late 1940s.