Latin American Women’s History: The National Period

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Latin American Women’s History: The National Period

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Asunción Lavrin

This work covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and examines key themes in the historiography of women as full participants in the process of nation building. Attention is given to the availability of sources for studying the experience of women across class and race and the collective experience of women engaged in labor and political activism. The role of ideological forces shaping state policies and social movements remains central in understanding theoretical approaches to the study of women and gender relations throughout the national period, and the incorporation of recent trends in the study of sexuality indicates the broadening agenda of the field.

Asunción Lavrin, a professor of history at Arizona State University, holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has received several NEH fellowships and a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship. The author of thirty-eight articles in journals and thirty-six chapters in books, she has published Monjas y beatas: Las escritutra femenina en la espiritualided barroca novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII (coedited with Rosalva Loreto); Women, Feminism, and Social Change in the Southern Cone 1890–1940; Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America; and Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives. Lavrin’s books and articles have received three academic prizes. She is the past president of the Conference on Latin American History and director of two National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes.

2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-154-5