Art Journal. Fall2019, Vol. 78 Issue 3, p10-28. 19p.
Subjects
WOMEN artists, WOMEN, SOCIAL conditions of women, ART education, WOMEN sculptors, and ARGENTINA
Abstract
The article discusses careers, accomplishments earned, and challenges faced by women artists in Argentina between 1890 and 1910. Topics explored include the presence of women in the Academy of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, the evolution of the artistic education of women in the country, and the significant works of Argentine sculptors Lola Mora and Josefa Aguirre de Basilicós.
New Political Science. Mar2019, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p55-79. 25p.
Subjects
WOMEN, REPRODUCTIVE rights, STATE-sponsored terrorism, NATIONALISM, NEOLIBERALISM, and ARGENTINA
Abstract
In Argentina, the use of women as symbols of the nation provided a necessary anchor for debates over national identity in the aftermath of state terrorism and neoliberal reforms. Discourses of nation relied on the symbolic status of women as bearers of the nation and "disappeared" them as subjects from the public sphere, reproducing preexisting gender hierarchies. Adopting an interdisciplinary Discourse Historical Approach perspective, this manuscript examines one site of production of national identity, national cinema, through the comparative analysis of two films: The Official Story and The Headless Woman. These films rely on their female protagonists' iconic status, the Good Mother and the Femme Fatale, respectively, to critically engage with authoritarianism, race and class in discourses of nation. Yet doing so prevents them from simultaneously addressing women's grievances. Unmasking these exclusionary discourses is critical to understanding why Argentine women continue to be denied some of their fundamental rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Feminism--Argentina--History--20th century, Young women--Argentina--Conduct of life, and Women--Argentina--Conduct of life
Abstract
In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a complex period in which the country saw prosperity and economic crisis, a growing cosmopolitan population, the emergence of consumer culture, and the development of nationalism. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna—the modern girl—helped shape Argentina's emerging national identity. Tossounian looks at visual and written portrayals of young womanhood in magazines, newspapers, pulp fiction, advertisements, music, films, and other media. She identifies and discusses four new types of young urban women: the flapper, the worker, the sportswoman, and the beauty contestant. She shows that these diverse figures, defined by social class, highlight the tensions between gender, nation, and modernity in interwar Argentina. Arguing that images of modern young women symbolized fears of the country's moral decadence as well as hopes of national progress and civilization, La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina reveals that women were at the center of a public debate about modernity and its consequences. This book highlights the important but underappreciated role of gendered figures and popular culture in the ways Argentine citizens imagined themselves and their country during a formative period of cultural and social renewal.
Computers and women--Argentina, Women authors, Argentine, Women--Argentina--Social conditions--21st century, and Technology and women--Argentina
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Technology and Gendered Genre Evolution in Latin America: Writers, Bloggers, Activists, and Floggers analyzes the link between gender and technology to explain the mechanisms underlying the association of specific genders with literary genres. Kelly Suero argues that as the democratic effect of the internet affords one the potential to obtain a space of adequate representation, Latin American women—in particular, Argentine women—have come to use technology as a medium through which to obtain a voice through the genres of cyberliterature and cyberculture. Increasing numbers of Argentine women are making an impact on both the literary and virtual spheres as they take technology to new, unexplored areas, such as the flogger youth movement led by Agustina Vivero, and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo's discovery of the ability of DNA mitochondrial analysis to help find missing grandchildren from Argentina's last dictatorship. As technology continues to influence a free Argentine society, Argentinian women will keep utilizing the medium to become innovative voices in fields previously unavailable to them. Scholars of Latin American studies, media studies, gender and women's studies, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Jewish women--Argentina, Human trafficking--History, Jews--Migrations--History, Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century, Prostitution--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History, Jews, European--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History, Social reformers--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History, and Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--19th century
Abstract
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.
The article discusses the status of women in Argentina and offers information on the country's female population, female life expectancy at birth and maternal mortality ratio.
Feminism--Argentina--History--20th century, Cooking, Argentine, Cooking--Argentina, and Women--Argentina--Social conditions--20th century
Abstract
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 capitalized 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.
The article provides an overview of the status of women in Argentina with regards to female life expectancy at birth, total number of women living with HIV or AIDS, and female adult literacy rate.
Estudios Sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas. Winter2017, Vol. 23 Issue 46, p82-109. 29p.
Subjects
SOCIAL conditions of black women, WOMEN, BLACK people, GROUP identity, ETHNICITY, SLAVE descendants, and ARGENTINA
Abstract
This paper presents an anthropological approach to a group of black women of the city of Santa Fe (Argentina). The aim is to describe some of the thoughts and actions undertaken by them to make public the historical connection between sectors of the popular classes of Santa Fe and the African and Afro-descendant presence in Argentina, and more specifically on the Litoral (northern coast) In particular, from their self-affirmation as "women, black and Argentine", I will begin with the ethnographic description of the oldest institution in the country exposed to afro-descendant issues, and a personal history of one of the women within it. Then were will be an analysis of performances linked to the practice of "candombe" (a form of ritual dance), in order to understand the recurrence of images and aesthetics that refer to the colonial regime -in transition to a republican one, keys in the production of a racial-sexual stereotype about the black woman, and a school imaginary crystallizing blackness, and the image most closely associated with an African and Afro-descendant presence in the country. It will conclude with some thoughts and questions about the specific local conditions that produced the identity of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
METABOLIC syndrome risk factors, WOMEN, DISEASE prevalence, POSTMENOPAUSE, PERIMENOPAUSE, ANTHROPOMETRY, and HIGH density lipoproteins
Abstract
Introduction. The menopause and the metabolic syndrome (MS) are related with the increase of the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Objectives. To evaluate the existence of metabolic risk factors and the prevalence of MS in pre- and post-menopausal women. Subjects. 253 women: 120 pre-menopausal and 133 post-menopausal. Anthropometric, arterial pressure and waist circumference measurements were carried out. Glycaemia, lipids, creatinine, hepatogram, uric acid and thyroid-stimulating hormone were dosed. Results. Statistical higher registries of arterial pressure, levels of glycaemia, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, triglycerides and TG/high-density lipoprotein relation were observed among post-menopausal patients. As regards this group, the MS diagnosis was considerably higher, being the same by all the criteria. Conclusions.We found more prevalence of cardiometabolic and MS risk factors among the group of post-menopausal patients. The responsible mechanisms would respond to the secondary hypoestrogenaemia at the cease of the ovarian function. Because of this fact, menopausal women should be considered a risk group for the development of MS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Varia História; Jan-Apr2019, Vol. 35 Issue 67, p311-44, 34p, 1 Black and White Photograph
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PROSTITUTION -- History, HUMAN sexuality, BUENOS Aires (Argentina : Province) -- History, WOMEN -- Argentina, and TRANSNATIONALISM
Abstract
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Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. May2016, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p607-623. 17p.
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SOCIAL conditions of women, WOMEN, POPULAR culture, GENDER identity, FINANCIAL crises, SOCIAL reality, HEGEMONY, DISCOURSE analysis, and ARGENTINA
Abstract
Popular media plays an important role in the production and reproduction of hegemonic cultural norms, as well as in the construction of class and gender identities. Periods of economic crisis generate struggles over ways of understanding social reality that can destabilize or reinforce different identities. The media often plays an important role in the reconfiguration of identities. Expanding on these ideas, I conduct a discourse analysis of a women’s magazine to examine how popular media reflected and influenced shifting gender and class identities in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1995 and 2008, a period of major socioeconomic change. By drawing attention to supposedly ‘non-political’ actors and spaces, I argue for expanding the range of sites we investigate in order to make sense of changing class and gender subjectivities during times of socioeconomic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]