Maria Graham: anotações sobre a flora do Brasil

Peixoto, Ariane Luna; Filgueiras, Tarcíso de Sousa

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“…She was in Brazil between 1821 and 1825, publishing her observations on everyday life and natural resources. She illustrated more than 250 specimens of Brazilian flora and collected plants that were included in the Flora Brasiliensis of von Martius [ 80 , 81 ] Marianne North (1830–1890) England Naturalist and illustrator She participated in several scientific expeditions aimed at describing plants in their natural environment, illustrating 727 plant genera; she came to Brazil between 1872 and 1873. Some plants were totally unknown and were named after her, such as Northia seychellana , Nepenthes northiana and Crinum northianum ; the last one was described based on her drawings.…”

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Female naturalists and the patterns of suppression of women scientists in history: the example of Maria Sibylla Merian and her contributions about useful plants

Mariath

Baratto

2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background This work reunites many women naturalists who registered knowledge about native flora in scientific expeditions around the globe between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Since male naturalists are more recognized in this period of time, we aimed to list female naturalists that published plant descriptions and observations, focusing on the work of Maria Sibylla Merian and to analyze her trajectory as an example to discuss the patterns of the suppression of women scientists. A second aim was to inventory the useful plants described in Maria Sibylla’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and find pharmacological evidence about the traditional uses described for those plants cited as medicinal and toxic. Methods A survey of female naturalists was carried out by searching information in Pubmed, Scielo, Google Scholar and Virtual Health Library. Once Maria Sibylla published her book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by her own, without male co-authors, and also this book is one of the only to have text and illustrations altogether and there are reports indicating information on useful plants in this work, she and her book were chosen as subject of this research. All the information was tabulated by dividing the plants into food, medicinal, toxic, aromatic or other uses. Finally, with the combinations of the scientific name of medicinal and toxic plants with information about their popular uses, a search was carried out in databases in order to indicate current pharmacological studies that reported evidences about the traditional uses described. Results We found 28 women naturalists who participated in scientific expeditions or trips, or in a curiosity cabinet, or who were collectors of Natural History between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. All these women illustrated botanical species and/or recorded their everyday or medicinal use or reported their observations in the form of a published work, letters or diaries. Also, the trajectory of Maria Sibylla Merian revealed that her scientific relevance has been neglected from the eighteenth century by mechanisms of suppression, most of the time by male depreciation, which can be seen as a pattern for suppression of women in science. However, Maria Sibyllas’ contributions have been valued again in the twenty-first century. In Maria Sibylla’s work, 54 plants were identified, 26 of them used for food, 4 of them aromatic, 8 medicinal, 4 toxic and 9 other uses. Conclusion This study evidences that there are female naturalists whose work could be an important source for ethnopharmacological studies. Researching about women scientists, talking about them and highlighting the gender bias present in the scientific academy about the way the history of science is told is essential for the construction of a more diverse and richer scientific academy. The traditional use of 7 of 8 medicinal plants and 3 of 4 toxic plants reported was correlated with pharmacological studies, highlighting the importance of this historical record and its potential to direct strategic research in traditional medicine.

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Female naturalists and the patterns of suppression of women scientists in history: the example of Maria Sibylla Merian and her contributions about useful plants

Mariath

Baratto

2023

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…O século XIX fez do Brasil palco de inúmeras expedições científicas estrangeiras, uma das quais resultou na importante obra denominada Flora Brasiliensis (Nogueira 2000). Os estudos taxonômicos foram baseados em exemplares coletados por 135 colecionadores, dentre os quais havia apenas duas mulheres: Maria Graham e Therese Prinzessin von Bayern (Peixoto & Filgueiras 2008).…”

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A mulher na botânica: questões de gênero na participação feminina em congressos de botânica no Brasil

Pilon¹,

Durigan²

2011

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A questão gênero e ciência, ou gênero e produção de conhecimento, vem sendo alvo de muitas discussões atualmente em todo o mundo. Com o objetivo de analisar a participação feminina na botânica e verificar se há algum tipo de viés de gênero neste campo do conhecimento, foram analisados anais de três congressos de botânica em um intervalo de 21 anos. No período analisado constatou-se a evolução da participação feminina nas pesquisas em Botânica, o aumento da produção de conhecimento e mudanças na posição de liderança das mulheres. A Botânica, portanto, difere em relação às ciências em geral no que diz respeito às questões de gênero.

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Crossing boundaries into a world of scientific discoveries: Maria Graham in nineteenth-century Brazil

Medeiros¹

2012

Studies in Travel Writing

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Maria Graham: anotações sobre a flora do Brasil

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Female naturalists and the patterns of suppression of women scientists in history: the example of Maria Sibylla Merian and her contributions about useful plants

Female naturalists and the patterns of suppression of women scientists in history: the example of Maria Sibylla Merian and her contributions about useful plants

A mulher na botânica: questões de gênero na participação feminina em congressos de botânica no Brasil

Crossing boundaries into a world of scientific discoveries: Maria Graham in nineteenth-century Brazil

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