Zahidé Maria Torres Machado Neto: colocando “retratos” nas Ciências Sociais e Estudos das Mulheres da Bahia

Abstract

The current research has as its objective to rescue the memory of Zahidé Maria Torres Machado Neto taking into account the agency of the author and her academic production and its importance for Social Science and women's studies at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), besides "recovering" the history of our sociologist, contextualizing it in space-time, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s at the College of Philosophy and Human Sciences FFCH-UFBA. The research also mapped which other women were present as researchers and students at the FFCH and how did they relate to Zahidé Maria Torres Machado Neto. In addition, this research investigated our sociologist's conjugality with Antônio Luís Machado Neto, demonstrating that despite being married to an influential jurist-sociologist, she knew how to build her own intellectual trajectory. For this study the anthropological methods used were anthropology of and in the archive, historical anthropology and interviews, visits were made to the archive of the FFCH and access to documents that are available in the repository of the UFBA, as well as documents that I had in a personal file from 2015 and others that were sent to me by professors. The dissertation do not intend to tell a universal history of the College of Philosophy and Human Sciences FFCH-UFBA, but to rescue the contribution of an intellectual, a respectable sociologist, without, however, falling into the "biographical illusion" and its importance is the contribution to the history of the Social Sciences of Bahia and of Brazil.