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Future Directions in Latin American Gender History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Donna J. Guy*
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Extract

I want to take this opportunity to thank Eric Van Young for inviting me to give this speech today. It is a great honor and a pleasure to have the opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts concerning the development of gender studies in Latin American history as well as the issues that need to be addressed in future years. When I first became interested in gender history in the 1970s, it seemed unlikely that journals such as Luso-Brazilian Studies would ever dedicate an entire issue to women's studies. Yet this year there is such an issue. It helps us appreciate how accepted gender studies have become for Latin American historians.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1994

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