The Intersection of National Identity and Gendered Labour through 19th Century Latin America led to Female Liberation.

 History of  Gender in 19th Century Latin America

 This course will explore the important role that gendered practices, peoples, and spaces had in the 

nation-budling projects of 19th century Latin America. The course will also discuss novels, chronicles,

 travel logs and historical documents published from Mexico to Argentina between the 1800 and 1920. 

The goal is to understand how and why gendered standpoints were deployed as tools for regulating public 

practices.

    This course will also analyze key aspects of the gender and society between Christianity and politics

 in twentieth century Latin America.

 QUESTIONS 

1. Discuss the Intersectionality between National Identity and Gendered Labour through Feminist writings during 19th Century 

Latin America.

In this Argumentative paper you will connect themes below to the topic above and decide if female liberation was gained with these sources.

        – What are the social constructs and involved in 19th Century Women’s lives, Indigeneity and freedom? 

        -Make a distinction between public and  private sectors to understand the 19th century Gender in Latin American context? 

        

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INSTRUCTIONS follow these:

• Make sure to answer all questions asked efficiently and intellectually about Feminism, 

domesticity and liberation.

SOURCE CITATIONS BELOW:

Main sources {focus on mostly these}

• Masiello, Francine. (1992)  "Between Civilization and Barbarism Gendered Struggles in the Nineteenth 

Century" In Between Civilization and Barbarism : Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina. 

University of Nebraska Press.

•Acosta de Samper, Soledad. “The Mission of the Woman Writer in Spanish America” (pg 269-274). 

In Nineteenth-century nation building and the Latin American intellectual tradition : a reader.

•Skinner, Lee. “Ambivalence and Representations of Women's Work in Nineteenth-Century Spanish American 

Writing, 1861–1896” Latin American Research Review; Pittsburgh Tomo 54, No.3,  (2019): 637-650.

• Wrigley, Julia. “Feminists and Domestic Workers.” Feminist Studies 17, no. 2 (1991): 317–29.

• Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Sarah Deutsch, Mary Romero, and Patricia Zavella. “New Perspectives on 

Latina Women.” Feminist Studies 19, no. 1 (1993): 193–205. (focus on the century specifically )

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DO NOT CITE THIS SOURCE BELOW:

• Berg, Mary G. “Writing for Her Life: The Essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner” (80-87). In Reinterpreting

 the Spanish American Essay. Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. University of Texas Press, 1995.

 NO ADDITIONAL SOURCE RESEARCH NEEDED