This ambitious volume surveys an expansive and diverse range of countries across the nineteenth-century Spanish-colonized Americas, showing how both men and women used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women in the modern, utopian nation. Lee Skinner argues that the rhetorical nature of modernity made it possible for readers and writers to project and respond to multiple contradictory perspectives on gender roles.
With special attention to public and private space, domesticity, education, technology, and work, Skinner identifies gender as a central concern at every...
This ambitious volume surveys an expansive and diverse range of countries across the nineteenth-century Spanish-colonized Americas, showing how bot...
The author examines the work of both male and female writers to show how nineteenth-century discourses of modernity and gender overlapped and shaped each other in the Spanish-colonized Americas.
The author examines the work of both male and female writers to show how nineteenth-century discourses of modernity and gender overlapped and shaped e...
