The path of Maria Yedda Linhares: notes about self construction

Abstract

The academic career and personal life of Maria Yedda Linhares are the central themes of this article.Through the analysis of interviews granted by her, we analyzed as was the process of her constitution as a university professor and a woman Brazilian historian. In addition to the set of her work, the historian recounts personal and professional experiences that are articulated directly or indirectly, with her training, professional work and historian's personal identity. The encouragement from their parents to become financially independent; the stimulus which she had received in her family environment for reading and reflection; the ability to relate to a large group of intellectuals; the wide performance in institutional spaces and research; the support and companionship of her husband, José Linhares, are records that mark her career. We chose to work with a gender’s perspective as thread of the history of this historian's analysis, since in her reports appears directly related experiences or indirectly to this issue