A historical study of the sort concept it has assumed a gradual relevance in the present time, but nor always it was thus, at the beginning these research alone accumulated of stocks the feminine scope in its domiciles, having relations with a patriarcal and machista scene. In this direction, the objective of this article is to explicitar as the categories of sort had been boarded initially for the historiografia, notadamente for the sources of social history and implicitly the apelos to construct new perspectives, of new looks for this category. In1970, the historiografia if saw instigated to construct research that would disclose problematic concerning the oppression and the feminine inaquality; in the decade of 70 of century XX, the sort concept was used as indicative of the feminine classroom, only focando the inherent aspects the woman in the social environment, but from 1980 this concept passed to be perceived in its ampler form, meaning in such a way the man as the woman in its identidrias and partner-cultural characteristics, for this fact the cultural elements domiciliary had been used to elucidate the historical differences of the society of each time, being defined certain identity of the man and the woman. The tabulao and the incorporation of the feminine group as object of partner-cultural history had extended the tematizaes, enriching the studies of the social segments of the past; the category of sort made possible history to know the relations between the social groups with the particular experience of the women in the communitarian way, had in a similar way been used to decide problematic in other perspectives to discipline..