Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America

Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520065536
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520909076
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.
The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of t

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• ONE Introduction
• TWO Latin American Feminism and the Transnational Arena
• THREE Women, State, and Family in Latin American Literature of the 1920s
• FOUR Women, Literature, and National Brotherhood
• FIVE The Modernization of Femininity: Argentina, 1916-1926
• SIX Alfonsina Storni: The Tradition of the Feminine Subject
• SEVEN The Journalism of Alfonsina Storni: A New Approach to Women’s History in Argentina
• EIGHT A Question of Blood: The Conflict of Sex and Class in the Autobiografía of Victoria Ocampo
• NINE Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Dreaming in a Double Voice
• TEN Toward a History of Women’s Periodicals in Latin America: Introduction
• ELEVEN Toward a History of Women’s Periodicals in Latin America: A Working Bibliography
• TWELVE Bibliographical Update: Women, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
• INDEX