Abstract

BARRETO, Raylane Andreza Dias Navarro  and  SANTOS, Izabela Cristina de Melo. “A powerful argument in favor of the emancipation that so many people think is impossible”: the case of Anna Alves Vieira Sampaio, the first woman from Alagoas to receive a bachelor's degree in Law. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-47.  Epub Mar 17, 2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-47.

The analyses made in this article focuses on the educational training and professional trajectory of Anna Alves Vieira Sampaio, the first woman from Alagoas to obtain, in 1893, a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Recife Law School. Based on documentary sources, we seek to understand the paths taken by her, from her education to the exercise of her legal activity, observing the practices and tactics (CERTEAU, 2014), that she used to achieve her goals. We intend to contribute to the historiographical perspective that focuses on the diversity of women's experiences in a context in which they were commonly associated with the domestic milieu, as well as to understand how her educational trajectory contributed to define her paths in the legal career.

Keywords : Women’s education; XIX Century; Law; Anna Alves Vieira Sampaio.

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