LISTíN DIARIO : OCTOBER 26 1940

Although women worked for reform and change at home, they had few effective channels for garnering support, and their programs were often dismissed as irrelevant by both government and opposition leaders. Francine Masiello's reevaluation of the novel of family relationships in the s and s casts new light on the representation of family structures in the novel: how this representation conforms to or deviates from current political exigencies.

Women Culture and Politics in Latin America

Campeón such, their presence in the modern nation-state posed some contradiction. All these topics meshed comfortably with traditional feminine interests within their societies and were matters of concern to scientists and educators of both sexes. The IACW took up the task of collecting material on the legal status of women from every country in the hemisphere: The commission, created in the Sixth Pan American Conference for the purpose of dealing with the Conflict of Laws and Uniformity of Legislation. Latin American women's participation in and contributions to international feminist discourse are well illustrated in the proceedings of inter-American conferences held between and Modernity, with all of its force, was celebrated by these youthful authors, who rushed to the innovation of form and ideas as a way to break from the elders; thus, they staged a generational rebellion against audience, tradition, and institutions. By the latter half of the nineteenth century, numerous women in lettered culture had advanced the issues of women's rights, especially with respect to civil status, family, and participation in literary life.

Thus, the figure of the maestra is of interest not only as a transmitter of class culture but also as an actor across class boundaries and a frequent transgressor of her own class culture. Doris Stevens USA was chair. We are not speaking of all women—some were patriotic, and most were indifferent. For example, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has been seen as a unique phenomenon, an iconographic feminist presence, rather than as one of many women involved in a long tradition of engagement in Latin American culture. Recent feminist scholarship has opened the possibilities for rereading the personal to reveal its political implications. Mary Louise Pratt teaches comparative literature and literary theory at Stanford University. In South America, the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the vast Chaco territory, a dispute that opened with a few armed skirmishes in the late s, flared into a bitter and bloody war in which nearlylives were lost and both countries nearly bankrupted before a truce was reached in As part of this denunciation, Inicial specifically protested contra las aspiraciones, sentimentales y romantizantes, con que los fuertes engañan a los débiles y los débiles se consuelan de su impotencia. This concern is evident in the contents of the penny dreadfuls and the women's weekly magazines, in the hygiene manuals designed for women, and in the almost xenophobic emphasis on keeping immigrant women from the nationalist domain.

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Kathleen Newman teaches Latin American film and mass communications theory at the University of Iowa. The examination of this multifaceted lid opens another route to information about the ideas, strategies, goals, and accomplishments of women's movements. In the early years of the twentieth century, there was considerable popular and scientific concern for the monitoring of women's bodies. Like Storni and Mistral, whose public work in journalism and political activism was obscured in the process of anthologizing and canonizing their work to conform to cultural norms, Madre Juana is a writer whose place in her context is important to our understanding of women's writing in her own time and after. El Generalsimo Doctor Ra Rafael fael Rafael Lenidas Trujillo Molina, Benefactor do la Patria v dis caballero tinguido distinguido Presidente ie Blasón do la Cruz Roja Dominicana ha enviado su cuota correspondien correspondiente te correspondiente a su enrolamiento en la pre actualidad sente presente Campaa, a la humanita humanitaria ria humanitaria Institu in. This material clarifies the evolution of feminist theory and its relationship to action throughout modern history; it also provides a strong base from which to build contemporary feminism. Thus, in the introduction to his multivolumed La literatura argentinaRicardo Rojas denounced the impoverished values of the modern nuclear family and its failure to meet the needs of children.

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Criticism of United States policy was increasingly vociferous, and by the s the interventionism of the early years of the century gave way to a diplomacy of inter-American reconciliation. Gender, we would add, is the other fundamental factor that accounts for differences in reading and literary taste. Their purpose was to discuss "scientific, economic, social and political issues," and, as a later chronicler wrote, "women of the Latin American countries have been identified with these congresses since the first. The Politics of Womanhood The status of women in the early twentieth century may be analyzed in the context of political programs for national reform and modernization. Bain Research Group for grants to do bibliographical projects and to the Stanford Humanities Center for logistical support in the preparation of the manuscript. The most popular image of Madre Juana sets the stage for the role of the woman writer as passionate, self-destructive heroine. Similarly, the related commonplace that women speak from indoors, from womblike spaces, does not hold as an absolute: in relation to the land and landscape, women's writing differs from the masculinist tradition by abandoning the terms of conquest and domination, which seek to label and classify according to the known and thereby to control the mystery of the unknown.