Abstract
Located in the field of History of Education, the research focuses on the study of the life of Henriqueta Galeno (1887-1964), an educator who worked in the patriarchal scenario of the first half of the 20th century, in the city of Fortaleza - Ceará. The objective was to biograph the teacher Henriqueta Galeno with emphasis in its educational formation andinsertion in the feminist movement. Through documentary research - newspapers, magazines, reports, autobiographical compendium, posthumous work -, it was found that Henriqueta: she received primary education with a private teacher; she studied at the Imaculada Conceição and at the Liceu do Ceará school, in times when only men entered; she was the first student and teacher of the Liceu school, after graduating in Law. Even subjugated to the father, she became an intellectual with an expressive participation in the feminist movement of Ceará, breaking cultural paradigms and problematizing social dogmas.
Keywords:
Henriqueta Galeno; History of Education; Biography; Feminism