As insanas do Hospício Nacional de Alienados (1900-1939) Insane women at the Hospício Nacional de Alienados (1900-1939)

Este trabalho é um dos resultados de pesquisa de pós-doutoramento realizada entre 2004 e 2006 na Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, com o apoio do CNPq e da Faperj, em que se buscou estabelecer uma cartografia das práticas psiquiátricas no Hospício Nacional de Alienados. O projeto tinha por objetivo levantar dados e analisar os processos de construção de diagnósticos, o tempo de internação e suas correlações. Para tanto, foram considerados os critérios: origens étnicas e nacionais, atividades profissionais, gênero, estado civil, idade, classe social, índice de mortalidade, origem geográfica e autoria dos prontuários. Neste texto restringimo-nos à relação entre gênero e loucura nas quatro primeiras décadas do século XX.<br>This study is one of the products of post-doctoral research carried out between 2004 and 2006 at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, with the support of the research funding agencies CNPq and Faperj. The goal was to arrive at a cartography of psychiatric practices at the Hospício Nacional de Alienados (HNA) by surveying and analyzing the processes of constructing diagnoses and length of hospitalization and correlating these with the patient's ethnic and national origin, occupation, gender, marital status, age, social class, mortality rate, geographical origin, and other attributes. The present article limits itself to the issue of gender and madness during the first three decades of the twentieth century

Switzerland and 'Colonialism without Colonies'. Reflections on the Status of Colonial Outsiders.

In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European colonial power constellation. Using the example of Switzerland, it analyses the presence and perseverance of colonial structures and power relations in a country that has never been regarded as or understood itself as an official colonial power. In a first step, we compare present debates on colonialism in Switzerland with those in neighbouring countries, i.e. France, Germany, Italy and Austria. In a second step, we trace previous research that postulates a link between Switzerland and colonialism, and apply the concept of ‘colonialism without colonies’, which, in contrast, engages with methods and themes that have emerged from postcolonial studies. Finally, we present a specific case study on ‘Swiss commodity racism’ in order to elucidate the concept ‘colonialism without colonies’