Brazilian Women Philosophers: Education and Emancipation in Post-Colonial Brazil is the latest volume in De Gruyter’s Women Philosophers Heritage Collection, which makes significant works by women in the history of philosophy and science accessible to contemporary readers. Learn more about the collection here.
About this book:
Though personally confronted with social inequality, including barriers to education and political representation, women made vital contributions to 19th century Brazilian philosophy. The works in this volume, many of them translated into English for the first time, illuminate the intertwined histories of colonialism, sexism, education, and political governance. An introduction provides invaluable insight into Brazilian philosophy.
Among the texts presented are: Nísia Floresta, Pages of an Obscure Life, on slavery and oppression of natives; Nísia Floresta, Humanitarian Booklet, on the oppression of women in the colonial context; Francisca Diniz on women’s emancipation in the context of the Brazilian Republic; Josefina Álvares de Azevedo on the need for universal education and the universal right to vote as means towards eradicating social inequality.
About the editor:
Pedro Pricladnitzky is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was a researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, working on the critical edition of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique manuscript. His research interests focus on the relationship between metaphysics and natural philosophy in the early modern period, with publications on Descartes, Cavendish, Du Châtelet, among others.
Interested in learning more about Brazilian women philosophers?
Pedro Pricladnitzky, Katarina Peixoto and Halina Leal also discussed Brazilian Women Philosophers as part of our 1000 Places in 1 World series. Watch the recording of the talk here and find out more about the event and its speakers here.
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