Archival Record
Collection: Women and Gender in Latin America in the 21st Century
Author or source: Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Title: Women in Modern Latin American History
Inclusive dates: This source was last Modified on 28th October 2011 and Last Reviewed on 05 May 2017.
Place of Origin: Oxford Bibliographies
Forms: The source is an essay
Series: The document is unique and not part of any series
Language: The document was originally composed in English.
Holding location: The source was retrieved from a website, Oxford Bibliographies; https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0045.xml
Date accessed: 1 August 2019
Subjects: The influence of female Latin scholars, participation of modern Latin women in religion, politics, economy, family and the origin of gender inequalities.
Abstract: This document builds on the rapid and diverse historical developments that have taken place in the lives of women and their role since independence up to the 21st century. This document incorporates women as historical subjects and emphasizes the relationship of gender to broader topics. This source is divided into parts the first one is, foundational work which explores gender and Latin women before 21st century based on sources and articles that were written before. It brings to light historical scholars who have explored the place of Latin American women. The second part provides sources that describe changes in the 21st century concerning women and gender in Latin America.
Author Bio: The source was written by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, there is not much on her but she is the author of Labor Appropriate to Their sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930- Latin American Otherwise. In conjunction with other editors she helped edit; Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics- the Latin American Reader. She is also an associate professor in history in the University of New Mexico. She has a B.A in Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard and Radcliffe Collages, M.A in Latin American Studies from the University of California and a PhD in history from the university of California.
Her research interests lie in Latin American Labor History, Twentieth –Century Chile, Gender and sexuality, Southern Cone, Human Rights, Religion and Cold War. Recently in 2014 she worked hand in hand with Dr.Kimberly Gauderman on a project called Practicing Asylum. This project aims to build a comprehensive network of witnesses who are experts and can testify on behalf of Latin Americans that were victims of domestic violence. She is also the co founder of Faculty for Sexual Assault-Free Environment at UNM, using this Faculty she advocates and promotes policy change and carry advance research on campus sexual violence at UNM and nationally. She also advises history graduate students who work on Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba and Mexico, Indigenous movements and disability history in the 20th century Latin America.
Historical note:
The intended audience of this source is mostly history students and any one with interest in the history of Latin Women and how their place in society has changed. This source has been greatly shaped by historical circumstances in the sense that Latin American societies are people who have a rich and broad history that stretches from the pre colonial period to the post colonial period. From the source, historical circumstances such as the Cold War which made scholars to shift their attention to the presence of feminist and the struggle for gender equality and the fact that Latin American Women figures were involved in shaping politics and the economy.
The text very much relates to the time it was composed. It was composed in 2011 when the place of women in Latin America had evolved and undergone some changes. This text also relates to the time it was written since it was meant to explore women and Gender in Latin American in the 21st century. This text very much relates to the information provided on the author. This document is on Latin American history and she has specialized on the history of Latin America and also helps students who are exploring or researching history in the 20th century on Latin America.
Scope and Content: This source shows that the study of gender and women in Latin America has grown rapidly in the late 20th century and the 21st century. This source also show the reason study of Latin American has grown is as a result of movements that have been fueled by women and the wide presence of female in Humanities and social science in the 1960s. This source also elaborates on what early research on Latin American Women focused on. This source also focuses its attention on why during the Cold war scholars focused their attention on females and among them Latin American females.
The purpose and reason why the author wrote this text is because of her deep interest and knowledge on Latin American history. She has also shown interest in gender and sexuality and the cold war. She was also working on witnesses who were experts and would testify on behalf of Latin Americans who were victims of domestic violence and mostly women who are victims of domestic violence. For the purposes of evidence she has cited several journals and studies that have been carried out on Latin American women. She has also included pieces of Journals that talk on the changes in gender and social political changes that have taken place in the 21st century.
Analytical Interruptions: This piece of evidence comes with a lot of lessons since it explores the history of gender and women in Latin American. This document presents evidence that feminist started campaigning for gender equality from the time of cold war and has been doing so even in the twenty first century. This text also presents evidence of research carried out by people such as Lavrin in 1978 on gender and women in the Latin American society. This text draws on extensive research and has provided evidence on the historical construction of gender inequality. From the point of view of the source one can learn that so many scholars at various time intervals have shown interest in the history of gender and women in Latin America. Research on women in education, labor and family has been carried out.
From the research one can learn that the earliest research on women and gender in Latin America was on family and their political rights. One can learn that Larvin was among the first scholars to introduce some of the earliest research on women that is available in English and the research included a sampling of historical as well as social science approaches to women experience. One learns that Elizabeth Kuznesof was the first to carry out a study of women’s economic activity and female headed households in Brazil in the early 19th century. She also established the importance of Latin America’s distinctive relationship to the economy and helped define the emerging field of Latin American history on women and family. Molyneux Maxine in 2001 and Guy Donna J in 2000 carried out research separately that focused on Latin women and gender interests.
This source matters for various reasons. First it matters because it clearly states the author’s perspective on Gender and women in Latin America in the 21st century. This source matters because it is a credible resource that has been based on research conducted by other scholars. This source matters because it provides insight on Latin American women and how their place in society has continued to change. This source matters because it is in relation to the topic that was being looked into. This source matters because it has significant historical content on Latin American women.
This source tells us a little on women in the contemporary America but has told us a lot on the changes that have influenced the place women hold in American Contemporary society. Changes such as the role of women and in particular feminist in the cold war period. This source is historically important because it discusses the places of women in the 19th century and 20th century. This source is also important and historically interesting because it has been backed up by other historical finding from other researches that have been conducted. This source is very much significant because it has been written in the 21st century thus every detail that has been included in it has been reviewed and approaved. This source is historically significant because it has details on the place of women in Latin American even before the pre colonial period.
