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Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in 19th Century Travel Accounts

Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in 19th Century Travel Accounts

Hahner, June E.

Paperback

Series: Latin American Silhouettes

Mexican HistorySouth American HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0842026347
ISBN13: 9780842026345
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Aug 1 1998
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.07
Language: English

The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the people and places that they encountered.Women through Women's Eyes draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a number of Latin American women into focus: nuns, market women, plantation workers, the wives and daughters of landowners and politicians, and even a heroine of the independence movement. Questions of family life, religion, women's labor, and education are addressed, in addition to the interrelationships of men and women within the structure of Latin American societies.

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