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• "If the water is sweet" : Jewish women in the countryside
• "I worked, I struggled" : Jewish women in Buenos Aires
• "A point of connection" : pathways into the professions
• "Not a novice" : prostitutes
• "A bad reputation" : family and sexuality
• "What surrounds us dissatisfies us" : leftists and union members through the 1930s
• "A dike against reaction" : contesting anti-semitism, fascism, and Peronism
• "We the women have to do something" : philanthropies and Zionism.

In "Crossing Borders", Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the hemisphere, a result of large-scale migration of Jewish people from European and Mediterranean countries beginning in the 1880s through World War II. During this period, Argentina experienced multiple waves of political and cultural change, including liberalism, nacionalismo, and Peronism. Although Argentine liberalism stressed universal secular education, immigration, and individual mobility and freedom, women were denied basic citizenship rights, and sometimes Jews were cast as outsiders, especially during the later political era of right-wing nacionalismo. Deutsch's research fills a gap by revealing the ways that Argentine Jewish women negotiated their own plural identities and in the process participated in and contributed to Argentina's liberal project to create a more just society. Drawing on extensive archival research and original oral histories, Deutsch tells the stories of individual women, relating their sentiments and experiences as both insiders and outsiders to illuminate themes of cultural, political, ethnic, and gender borders, state formation, and transnationalism in Argentine history. As agricultural pioneers and film stars, human rights activists and teachers, mothers and doctors, Argentine Jewish women led wide-ranging and multifaceted lives. Their community involvement, including building libraries and secular schools, and activism against global fascism in the 1930s and 1940s directly contributed to the cultural and political lifeblood of a changing Argentina. Despite their marginalization as members of an ethnic minority and as women, Argentine Jewish women formed communal bonds, carved out their own place in society, and ultimately shaped Argentina's changing pluralistic culture through their creativity and work.
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• Building a modern nation
• The flapper and The Joven Moderna
• The modern working girl
• Forging a healthy and beautiful body
• Embodying the nation

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna-the modern girl-helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity.
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• Building a modern nation
• The flapper and The Joven Moderna
• The modern working girl
• Forging a healthy and beautiful body
• Embodying the nation

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna-the modern girl-helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity.
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• Julia y Sofía : luz y contraluz del ideal femenino de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Soñar con Wollstonecraft y despertar con Rousseau : reflexiones en torno a la educación de la mujer doméstica argentina en los tiempos del Centenario
• Las niñas cocineras de Ángel Bassi : un estudio de caso acerca de cómo la escuela consideró la transmisión del saber culinario
• Las cocineras, la cocina y las prácticas culinarias en ámbitos rurales del sur de la provincia de Santa Fe, primera mitad del siglo XX
• Saber hacer, saber decier y saber escribir... : historias de mujeres escritoras de recetarios de cocina
• Cultura, cocina e historia.

Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one of the three best-selling books in Argentina. Dona Petrona capitalised on and contributed to the growing appreciation for women's domestic roles as the Argentine economy expanded and fell into periodic crises. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including her own interviews with Dona Petrona's inner circle and with everyday women and men, Rebekah E. Pite provides a lively social history of twentieth-century Argentina, as exemplified through the fascinating story of Dona Petrona and the homemakers to whom she dedicated her career.Pite's narrative illuminates the important role of food--its consumption, preparation, and production--in daily life, class formation, and national identity. By connecting issues of gender, domestic work, and economic development, Pite brings into focus the critical importance of women's roles as consumers, cooks, and community builders.
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Masiello's book 'sheds light on a relatively little-known group of extremely interesting women in the formative period of a major literature...[It] breaks new ground and will be a standard reference for the subject' - Margaret Sayers Peden. Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868-74), "Between Civilization and Barbarism" explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the 'civilizing' agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of 'barbarism', to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them. Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis.She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women's literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina. Francine Masiello is an associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of "Lenguaje e ideologia: las escuelas argentinas de vanguardia" (1986) and coauthor of "Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America" (1990).
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