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Chapter 11 - Feminisms

from Part II - Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2023

By
Gwen Kirkpatrick
Edited by
Fernando Degiovanni  and
Javier Uriarte
Fernando Degiovanni
Affiliation:
City University of New York
Javier Uriarte
Affiliation:
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
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Summary

Latin America in 1870–1930 initiated many modernization projects, and “First Wave” feminism resulted from expanded education, a modernizing strategy. Feminism engaged in emancipation strategies and legal and labor reforms. Suffrage was not its primary aim. Periodicals showed feminism’s impact in culture, commerce, civil rights, and public health, and films showed women in daring roles. Early leaders were professionals (Moreau de Justo) and labor activists (Capetillo, Muzzili). Feminism was first successful in cities (São Paulo, Buenos Aires), changing education, labor practices, and child protection. The Mexican Revolution produced new contexts for women in the arts (Campobello). The US presence in Cuba and Puerto Rico reordered Caribbean racial and social hierarchies. Women writers and activists of varied social classes, feminist or not, showed the costs and benefits of urbanization, family, and immigration. Teaching and writing allowed “middlebrow” access to the public sphere (Mistral, Storni). Literature brought women’s issues to the public sphere.

Keywords

feminismLatin Americawomen’s rightsmodernizationsuffragewomen writerspublic sphere
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Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930 , pp. 163 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Feminisms
  • Edited by Fernando Degiovanni, City University of New York, Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
  • Book: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930
  • Online publication: 14 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.012
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  • Edited by Fernando Degiovanni, City University of New York, Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
  • Book: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930
  • Online publication: 14 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.012
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  • Feminisms
  • Edited by Fernando Degiovanni, City University of New York, Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
  • Book: Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930
  • Online publication: 14 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976367.012
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