Women in Anthropology in Columbia. Anita Brenner throuhg her diaries, 1927-1930

Abstract

This article is about the entrance of women to the Universities of the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through written culture and gender I focus specially on the access they had to the career of Anthropology at the University of Columbia in New York City during the decade of 1920, and the support that the German Anthropologist, from Jewish origins, Franz Boas, gave his female students so they would succeed in their studies. In the second part of the article, I examine the entrances of the diaries written by Anita Brenner, about her experience as an anthropology student in Columbia from 1927 to 1930. The objective is to observe how her diaries reflected what many other female students lived in that time and place.