The THE FEMALE FIGURE IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL PORTUGUESE AMAZON

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the historiography produced in the last 20 years on women in the colonial Portuguese Amazon. With the passage of time and the emergence of new issues in the present, historiography is asking new questions and expanding its range of topics and methodologies in the field of women's history. The historian Maria Luiza Ugarte Pinheiro, in her text "Caminhos da história das mulheres no Amazonas" (Paths of Women's History in Amazonas), recalls that the contribution of Brazilian researchers to women's history began in the 1980s, allowing the development of different fields of research and historiographical contributions that previously did not consider the figure of women as a possibility for representation. This is one of the objectives of this work: to understand women as an important element in the context of Portuguese colonial Amazonia, and how narratives about these women are constructed in more recent works.