“The conditions of/on my sex”: Argentina women scientists against masculinised memory

Abstract

This work aims to present the social atmosphere surrounding women´s admission to Argentinian university academic sphere as a historical event mediated by gender relations.

The social context in late 20th and early 21st centuries in Argentina is also described, as regards its normative frame as well as the events which broke into female domestic confinement and women´s difficulties to access education.

Furthermore, women's access to university education and scientific studies is examined in the Argentinian historical context of early 20th century, when the first women's research papers are registered. Within this context Prosperina Paravarán´s life is described. She was a Santafecina student of the Dentistry programme at the National University of Córdoba who actively participated in the events during the University Reform, thus becoming a prominent female figure.

Even after women's admission to universities, the University Reform was redrafted from a male perspective, underestimating those pioneer women´s unsubmitting attitude in Argentinian universities and consigning them to oblivion.