When Fray Gaspar de Carvajal, in the sixteenth century, chronicled the expeditions of the Spaniards through the new world, he also named the region of the Amazon, the river that cuts through it and the largest Brazilian state. How did that happen? Well, when the expedition set of from Quito, in Peru, they were hoping …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by E as mulheres? Podcast (@womenfrombrazil) Maria José de Castro was Brazil’s first female diplomat in 1918. She was also the first public servant in the country. She was born in Salvador, in the northeast of Brazil in 1891. When she was 20 years old, with her …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by E as mulheres? Podcast (@womenfrombrazil) Patrícia Rehder Galvão, also known by the nickname Pagu, was an author, political activist, illustrator, journalist, translator, dramatist and the first woman arrested for political reasons in Brazil. Born in 1910, she early on became involved with the Brazilian Modernist movement. …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by E as mulheres? Podcast (@womenfrombrazil) Chiquinha Gonzaga never stopped fighting. She fought to do what she loved most: music. She struggled not to live with a man she didn’t love, at a time when divorce was not a given right and much less acceptable than it …
Carolina Maria de Jesus was a bestselling author in Brazil in 1960. She was a black woman, living in a favela in the biggest Brazilian city, with two years of formal education, and a single mother raising three children. Early Life In 1914, it had been 25 years since the republic was declared in Brazil …
Luísa Margarida Portugal de Barros, the Countess of Barral, was the tutor to princesses Isabel and Leopoldina and was very influential in her position, and also a close friend of Emperor Pedro II. Early Life Luísa was born on April 13, 1816. Her parents were Domingos Borges de Barros and Maria do Carmo Gouveia Portugal. …
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Today we are not going to talk about one woman… or two… but three women! These women have several things in common. Among them, the fact that we do not have much factual information, since it is difficult to separate myth from fiction. Another thing in common: these three women lived in the 16th century. …
We’re so excited to talk about this woman! She made history by being awesome, refusing to give up, working hard and not accepting the limitations they wanted to impose on her. Her name is Enedina Alves Marques, the 4th female engineer in Brazil, the first female engineer in the south of the country, the first …
Ana Néri (a.k.a. Anna Nery) is known to every nurse from all over Brazil, and do you know why? That’s because she is our country’s first nurse, or at least she’s acknowledged as the first one. The main document for our research is the article “Ana Justina Ferreira Néri: um marco na história da enfermagem …
Hello, welcome and welcome to the very first episode of E as Mulheres? The podcast that seeks to answer this question that comes up every time we open a history book, be it history or world history. Together we will explore the lives of women who have changed the course of history, highlighting women you …