The STRUGGLE FOR THE RECOGNITION OF WOMEN-RESEARCHERS IN PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE:

EXPERIENCES OF NORTHEASTERN WOMEN AT THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The philosophical, scientific and academic development, has reserved a predominant place for the aristocratic European male subject. Constituting, androcentric knowledge production based on a concept of supposed objectivity and neutrality between subject and object of investigation. In this perspective, this article aims to portray some of the obstacles in the trajectory of women in philosophy, science and academia as a thinker, knowledge producer, educator and student in university contexts, which are constituted, based on the reality highlighted here, in everyday expressions of resistance in public spaces. We propose, through the reflective account of our trajectory of lives intertwined with bibliographic research and documentary consultation, to think about the place occupied by the woman-researcher at the Brazilian university, taking as a scenario, specifically, the State University of Rio Grande do Norte - UERN, Campus Caicó, where we exercise our activities as women, respectively, teacher-researchers and student-researcher in the Philosophy Degree Course. In the end, it was possible to identify that there is a tendency for national insertion of women in Higher Education Institutions, however, still revealed, in the researched reality, subtle forms of silencing. Such aspects need to be well problematized, as the mechanisms of segregation of women's actions go through minimal gestures and intersections of realities that are daily implicit in the internal and external social relations that are established between men and women, producing and silencing subjectification processes that require a state of permanent attention, resistance and resilience to overcome adverse situations that are so pertinent to the Northeastern peoples and that the place occupied by women-teachers-students-researchers does not continue to be denied in a veiled way.