On April 14, at 5 pm, in room 2.3., the Open Lecture will be held by Inês Brasão (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria / Instituto de História Contemporânea (FCSH-UNL), with the theme “Methodological composition of a subaltern reality: the case of domestic servility in Portugal”.
An organization of the Doctorate in Sociology and the Doctorate in Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Unionism.
Biography
Inês Brasão is Professor of Sociology at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, since 1999, and a PhD in Historical Sociology and Economics, since 2010, by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH).
In 1997, she was distinguished with the Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos Prize (CCF) for her dissertation in the area of women's studies. In 2011, she won the Maria Lamas Prize for her doctoral dissertation on a history of domestic service in Portugal, based on narratives by servants. She has edited in the areas of sociology of culture, sociology of sport and sociology of reading, history of work and women and, more recently, in the areas of sociology and history of tourism. Among other books, she has published O Tempo das Maids (2012), Gifts and Disciplines of the Female Body (1st and 2nd revised edition), Hotel, Os Bastidores (2017) and Visions Crossed: a portrait of Óbidos Lagoon (2015). Lately, she has participated in projects to promote women's history, most notably the work Fêmea, an Illustrated History of Women.
She is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH).