History of Latin America
Week 7: Women and Workers
Mon: |
Populism in Latin America |
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Latin American Women at the Turn of the Century |
Fri: |
VIDEO: Scars of Memory |
Readings:
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**E-Reserve, Eva Perón , “Evita and the People” & "Peronist Feminism"
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The film Miss Mary--about a British governess in an upper-class Argentinian family in the 1940s--is available on Reserve in Raynor if you are interested in seeing the whole thing.
- To the left: Eva Duarte Perón, wife of Juan Perón, defiantly emulated the styles of the upper-class women who scorned her, but attached herself to a wholly different kind of populist politics. "Evita" died of cancer in 1952.
And as always, links of note:
Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who worked with Haya de la Torre and Vasconcelos in Mexico's revolution-era Ministry of Education, and later won a Nobel Prize for literature. In Spanish and English.
The official APRA website
The BBC on APRA's Alan Garcia, current president of Peru