%0 Journal Article %T La ocultaci¨®n de las mujeres en la historia de Venezuela %A Vargas Arenas %A Iraida %J Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X hide the women in history is a product of history written by men. we can say that hiding women, it was possible to deny the historicity of their own struggles, their actions, everything they have done, of everything they do, which explains why today, the struggles of women are excluded from historical memories of our peoples, for they are men£¿s memories. this concealment allowed to create a useful historical memory, first, to the interests of the nineteenth century oligarchy, then to the republican national bourgeoisie, and always to the patriarchal structures; on its turn, this has been part of the ideological mechanisms that strengthened the reproduction of diversified forms of female subjugation, which has always placed women in disadvantaged situations with respect to men. %K women %K memory %K historiography. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1316-37012010000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en