Women within the social sciences - the subjects and the objects of research

Abstract

It is known that sociology started being a science of the social facts in the early nineteenth century. Nevertheless, women only became a theoretical problem of the sociological research by the end of the sixties of this century. Which is the present situation within the framework of the sociological research carried out in Portugal, namely at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Institute of Social Sciences)? Which is the place of female researchers regarding the research production in Portugal? Based on the analysis of the present ICS research staff and on the exhaustive exploratory survey of the GIS/ICS publications issued since 1963, the
author answers those questions and critically reasons on both the potentialities of a sociology of the feminine condition in Portugal, and the obstacles preventing its implementation.