Publishing Houses and Women Publishers in Brazil Today. Two Contemporary Case

Since the historical narratives of women publishers in Brazil are scarce or non-existent, our goal in this work is to record, as completely as possible, the editorial history and the work of women publishers in the country, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with two case studies. In this paper, we present a set of relevant characters both to understand Brazilian publishing practices and to sketch the history of the occupation of public spaces by contemporary women. More in particular, we present two examples of publishing houses directed by women who work in the contemporary Brazilian literary scene: the publishers of Chao da Feira (Belo Horizonte/Lisbon/Sao Paulo) and Relicario (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais).