Ambivalence and Representations of Women’s Work in Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Writing, 1861–1896.
Debates over shifting gender roles in nineteenth-century Spanish America included the question of women’s participation in the workforce. Writers of fiction and nonfiction posed arguments about paid employment for middle-class women and often represented work itself in ways that reinforced tradition...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 637 - 651 |
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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