Histórias de vida: experiências, memória e voz de três professoras, pioneiras no Curso de Biologia da UEFS

Abstract

This thesis is a textual document preparation, that reveal the trajectory, in Biological Sciences, of three pioneer professors of the Biology degree at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS. Ratifying the dissemination and visibility network of women's stories in Science, through related narratives of sharing tolerance mechanisms actions and putting in evidence the legacy, struggle and coping with sexism, that were unattanable throughout the historical process of both the degree and university. Therefore, contents were constructed from data collected during interviews, which presented knowledge about the introduction of professors in Biology and their contribution to intellectual property as well as to several administration sectors at UEFS, since its establishment, being the proposed procedures by Meihy (2005) and Meihy e Holanda (2011) the theoretical and methodological support. In the second part of the thesis, I looked for the common characteristics and the set of uniform questions that cross the teachers' stories, through a collective analysis of their lives, using methodological support ( stone, 2011). The imperatives that led them to Biology, the context of academic training, the pioneering trajectory at UEFS and the gender confrontations they experienced were discussed, in dialogue with the literature, which favors the analysis of historical structures and still permeates the lives of women. women in science. For the interpretation and analysis of the stories, I relied on ( MELO, 2009) who indicates the look at the narratives, also thinking about the possible tools of power, implicit in the teachers' speeches, which shape and support their discourses.