Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025): Women and the media

The thematic dossier “Women and the Media” brings together articles that problematize the presence, representation and agency of women in various media formats, through an interdisciplinary approach anchored in the fields of Women's History, Gender Studies, Communication and Critical Media Analysis. The proposal is based on the understanding that the media not only reflect, but also produce and reconfigure social discourses, normativities and dissent, and are therefore privileged spaces for the analysis of the power dynamics that permeate bodies, subjectivities and temporalities.

The translation, carried out by Ana Carolina Eiras Coelho Soares, of the essay entitled "After History?" by Joan W. Scott, presented here, aims to expand access in Portuguese to a fundamental text for contemporary historiographical debates. Produced in the context of the “history wars” in the United States and originally published in 2001, the text remains current by challenging naturalized conceptions of objectivity, truth and identity in the writing of history.