As mulheres e a Academia Brasileira de Letras

Abstract

The Brazilian Academy of Letters, an institute established in 1897, remained untouched by the feminine presence up to the year 1976, when clause 17 of its Regulations, which until then had restricted itself to "Brazilians of the masculine sex", was modified to allow women the possibility of candidacy. Hence, the objective of this article is to analyze the behind the scenes of the admission of Rachel de Queiroz, the first woman to take part in the writers' "immortal" circle in 1977.