Editorial

The theme of this Editorial was inspired by the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the 1st Master Course on Women Studies in Portugal in 1995 and by the demise of Ana Vicente, whose action and intervention, both in the academic and social and religious life in our country, was extremely important in the fight for the defense of women ́s rights. When we analyze the impact of the theories produced in the area of Women Studies and its philosophy for the development of the Portuguese university and society, we see that it is irrefutable that they contributed to a change in the intellectual paradigm. There is, therefore, an alteration of the models, which are followed to organize knowledge in academic research as well as in scholarship in general and, obviously, in what concerns Women Studies itself. The objective of the implicit knowledge thus acquired is to establish a common ground between the different subject matters, thus having an impact in the development of the main fields of study. Among the bibliographical references, we mention Alex Castro, Nadya Aisenberg and Martha Nussbaum.