This article proposes to contribute to the gender approach of science through "historiographical fragments" about women's participation in the educational, literary and scientific fields. This is a study relating specific individuals, specific time and space: women who, during the XVIII and XIX centuries, were inserted into places conceived by and for "men of science and letters" in the State of Ceara, situated in the northeast region of Brazil. The main contribution of this discussion is to know discourses and practices that women were involved in the scientific field before the creation of the first universities.
gender; science; education; literature