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Recent Work on Latin American Women: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Susan A. Soeiro
Susan A. Soeiro*
Affiliation:
Department of History, York College, City University of New York, Jamaica, New York 11432
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The recent literature on women in Latin America as yet forms a minute part of a necessary revision aimed at achieving a balanced and multidimensional view of the Ibero-American reality, past and present. Men, as the traditional transmitters of culture in society, have conveyed what they knew, understood, and judged to be important. Since women's activities differed considerably from those of men, they were regarded as insignificant and unworthy of mention. Scholars have further perpetuated the patriarchal and sexist assumptions of their own societies or those they have studied. As a fesult, more than four and a half centuries of history and all of the important ongoing processes of modernization, urbanization, professionalization, and even propagation seem to have occurred without the participation or even the presence of women. It was simply assumed that what was said of men held equally true for women. Hence the conception of reality perpetrated by social scientists and historians was that perceived by a dominant male group, who represented a partial construct as if it were a more complex whole.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 17 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The Changing Role of Women in Latin America , November 1975 , pp. 497 - 516
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Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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