Mulheres: da história no Brasil aos livros de história

Abstract

This research had as its theme the feminine representation in history textbooks from the 1980s to 1990s. Our objective was to investigate the way textbooks depict the woman’s participation in history, that is, we looked for aspects that pointed to the feminine participation in historical facts that are reported in textbooks and made available for teaching to students. During this research, we also expatiated on the woman’s history and the textbook’s history in Brazil. Also, the investigation of sources took place at the moment in which History textbooks were analyzed and researched in order to bring the reader how this didactic material represents, or omits, the women’s presence in the constitution of national history. We could determine, in the analyzed books, aspects that were directed to the critical formation of the student in search of breaking the history centered in the heroic figure, however, the omission of the feminine participation in the constitution of history, or even in organizations created by them, do not gain space or elements in the pages of these books. So, we believe that teachers and students should be motivated to go beyond the pages of the books. The teachers have the role of providing voice to the excluded ones in history, and the students should have the opportunity of learning about the struggles and conflicts women went through in history.