Francisca Praguer Fróes

Francisca Praguer Fróes (Cachoeira, Bahia, 21 October 1872 – Rio de Janeiro, 16 November 1931) was a Brazilian physician, activist, feminist, and writer. She was one of five women in Brazil to complete a degree of higher education in 1893.[1]

Francisca Praguer Froes
BornFrancisca Praguer Froes
(1872-10-21)21 October 1872
Cachoeira, Bahia
Died16 November 1931(1931-11-16) (aged 59)
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
SpouseJoão Américo Garcez Fróes

Biography

Francisca graduated from the Bahian School of Medicine and Pharmacy in 1893. She was the first woman in Brazil to be trained in medicine. Specializing in Gynecology and Obstetrics, Froes devoted herself to the field of political and civil rights of women. She was a diligent defender of women's rights to health, particularly those affected with sexually transmitted diseases. She was an advocate for public health and education on the topic of hygiene and sexual moral. Borges claimed that Froes' career showed "how she used her position of authority within the medical profession as the fulcrum from which to press a feminist argument".[2] Aside from her studies on women's health, Freos was an advocate for political and scientific discussions on sexual moral. She focused on a broad discussion of the way society was constructed. She advocated for hygiene, sexual moral, and most of all health. Recognizing that those key points should be apart of the social agenda than advocating and making them apart of the social agenda from her time. At 27 Freos researched and studied using her medical background contributing to medical journals becoming one of the female editor of her time. She married João Américo Garcez Fróes, a physician and academic.

References
  1. Rago, E (10 November 2009). Francisca Praguer Fróes: Medicine, Gender and Power in the Trajectory of a Doctor in Bahía (1872-1931) (Report).
  2. Borges, Dain Edward (1985). The Family in Bahia, Brazil: 1870 - 1945. Stanford University Press. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6549-7.

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