Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: A quasi-fictional narrative, is constructed from the public event of the inauguration of the Feminine Reading Room in Porto Municipal Public Library, in 1945,based upon historical and sociological research. Biographical and historical data are crossed with those from literature, photography, and interviews to rebuild a holisticcontext of events within the frame of a qualitative approach, aiming to understand the significance of the use of such semi-public spaces by women. The invisibilisation of thepresence of women is interpreted on the basis of women's status, shaped, in its turn, by local and historical situations. This case illustrates how separate, women-only spacescontributed to processes of women's appropriation of public space.
Authors: Paula Sequeiros, Sónia Passos
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W56564982