Origins and challenges of gender studies centers in higher education in NorthERN and Northeastern Brazil

• Main Authors: Maria Eulina Pessoa de Carvalho (Author), Alejandra Montané-Lopez (Author), Glória Rabay (Author), Adenilda Bertoldo Alves de Morais (Author), Mayanne Julia Tomaz Freitas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In higher education, interdisciplinary gender studies centers deconstruct traditional androcentric positivist academic knowledge, making it possible to apply the gender perspective to all objects of knowledge. However, they suffer from insufficient recognition and weak institutionalization in Brazil...