MONOGRAFÍA - Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen, South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text, Liverpool University Press, 2006

Documentos de trabajo (para descargar)

• [Josefa Acevedo de Gómez] A Treatise on Housekeeping for the Use of Mothers and Housewives (protegido por contraseña). Bogotá, Imprenta José A. Coalla, 1848 Translated by Sarah Sanchez Copyright © 2006 (pdf) [Traducción de “Tratado sobre economía doméstica para el uso de las madres de familia i de las amas de casa”, de Josefa Acevedo de Gómez]
• Género en la independencia de Latinoamérica I: La sociedad colonial tardía, una perspectiva general  (135KB documento de Word) [Traducción de “Gendering Latin American Independence I: Late colonial society, an overview”]
• Género en la independencia de Latinoamérica II: ¿“Amazonas o inocentes”? La contribución de la mujer a la causa (162KB documento de Word) [Traducción de “Gendering Latin American Independence II: ‘Amazons or innocents’? Women’s contribution to the cause”]

Publicaciones

• Hispanic Research Journal, Special edition, no.7.1,Spring 2006.
  Néstor Tomás Auza, ‘La condición social de la mujer argentina. De la Revolución de Mayo a la Organización Nacional 1810-1860’. Auza provides an overview of the emergence of women into the public sphere in the River Plate region.
• Matthew Brown, ‘Soldier Heroes and the Colombian Wars of Independence’.  Brown examines the aspirations and self-representations of foreign soldiers (British mercenaries) fighting in the Wars of Independence in Gran Colombia and traces how they came to embody republican values during the conflict.
• Sarah C. Chambers, ‘Masculine Virtues and Feminine Passions: Gender and Race in the Republicanism of Simón Bolívar’.  Chambers focuses on the interlinks between gender, race and notions of virtue and passion as evidenced in the writings of Simón Bolívar.
• Asunción Lavrin, ‘Spanish American Women, 1790-1850: The Challenge of Remembering’.  Lavrin reflects on the contribution of recent historiography on Spanish American women.  She examines two diaries written by women in the 1840s  (María Martínez de Nisser, Antioquia, Colombia and Agustina Palacio de Libarona, Argentina) that shed light on women’s self-perception and social expectations, and the intimate thoughts, preoccupations, motivations and aspirations of men and women involved in the political struggles and military conflict of the first half of the nineteenth century.
• Nicola Miller, ‘The “Immoral” Educator:  Race, Gender and Citizenship in Simón Rodríguez’s Programme for Popular Education’.  Miller looks closely at Rodríguez’s ideas on education in the context of debates on education policy, race, gender and citizenship in Spanish America from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries
• Special edition of Feminist Review, with editorial and authorial contributions from the project team (Volume 79, Issue 1, March 2005)
• Catherine Davies, Colonial Dependence and Sexual Difference: Reading for Gender in the Writings of Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), Feminist Review, 79, 2005, pp. 5-19.
• Claire Brewster, Women and the Spanish-American Wars of Independence. An Overview, Feminist Review, 79, 2005, pp. 20-35.
• Charlotte Liddell, Nature, Nurture and Nation. Nísia Floresta's Engagegment in the Breast-feeding Debate in Brazil and France, Feminist Review, 79, 2005, pp. 69-82.
• Iona MacIntyre, Review of Beyond Imagined Communities. Reading and Writing the Nation in 19th C Latin America, and Dreams and Realities. Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti, Feminist Review, 2005, pp. 180-181.
• Catherine Davies, 'On Englishmen, Women, Indians and Slaves. Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Spanish American Novel, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 82, no. 3-4, 2005, pp. 313-333.

Ponencias

• Catherine Davies, 'Gendering Latin American Independence: the Textual Construction of Gender in the Political Writings of Simón Bolívar (1783-1830)', 'Narrating and Imaging the Nation Conference', School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2003.
• Catherine Davies, 'The Textual Construction of Gender in Bolívar's Political Writings (Part 2: Manifiesto de Cartagena, Delirio del Chimborazo, El Proyecto para instituir un Poder moral). Society for Latin American Studies conference, University of Manchester, 2003.
• Catherine Davies, 'Disjunction in Modernity: Presenting the Pampas to the French', Interdisciplinary seminar series, School of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, 2003.
• Catherine Davies, 'On Slaves, Indians and Englishmen: Women Novelists in 19th C. Latin America', Seminar series Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Leeds; 'Beyond the Nation: New Directions in the Study of 19th C Latin America' conference, Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 2003.
• Catherine Davies, 'Spanish-American Interiors: Spatial metaphors, gender and modernity', Romance Studies biennial conference, Gregynog, University of Wales, 2003.
• Catherine Davies, 'Gender and Nation: The Poetry of Andrés Bello (1781-1865)', Society of Latin American Studies, Annual Conference, University of Leiden, 2004; Department of Spanish seminar series, University of Edinburgh, 2004.
• Catherine Davies, 'Competing Masculinities and Political Discourse: The Work of Esteban Echeverría (1805-51)', Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, 2005.
• Catherine Davies, 'Post-Empire. Literature, Gender and New Nation States in Latin America 1800-1850', The Henry Thomas Lecture, University of Birmingham, 2005.
• Catherine Davies, 'Gender and Violence, History and Fiction, Argentina c. 1840', Seminar series, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, 2005.
• Catherine Davies, 'Gender and Politics: Women's Patriotic Poetry in Post-Independence Spanish America 1820-1840', AHGBI Annual Conference 'Antes y Después del Quijote', Valencia, 2005.
• Catherine Davies, 'The Political Poetry of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, c. 1841: Beyond the Nation', Reading Spanish Caribbean Culture in the 21st Century, University of Birmingham, 2005.
• Hilary Owen, 'Brazil's First Feminists and the Farroupilha War', Nottingham staff and post-graduate Seminar, March 2005.
• Hilary Owen, 'Ana de Barandas e as primeiras feministas de Rio Grande do Sul', XI Seminario Nacional Mulher e Literatura Conference, Rio de Janeiro, August 2005.
• Iona Macintyre, 'Dedicado al bello sexo argentino: a nineteenth-century editorial war', Society of Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Derby, April 2005
• Iona Macintyre, 'Fraile Castañeda, las matronas, and the post-independence press in Buenos Aires', AHGBI, AHGBI Annual Conference 'Antes y Después del Quijote', Valencia, Spain, March 2005
• Iona Macintyre, 'Newspapers, pamphlets and national organization in post-independence Buenos Aires', Postgraduates in Latin American Studies conference, University of Cambridge, February 2005
• Iona Macintyre, 'Las Editoras: Fictitious women's writing in the Platine press', Unequal States: Race and Gender at Latin American Independence, University of Warwick, September 2004
• Iona Macintyre, 'Deber de las damas argentinas con respecto a la sagrada causa y engrandecimiento de su patria: Feminine religious virtue and nation-building in La Aljaba', CEISAL, University of Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2004
• Claire Brewster, 'Nation building in Independent Peru: San Martín's Orden del Sol of 1821', Society of Latin American Studies conference, Derby, April 2005
• Claire Brewster, 'Women soldiers in the wars of Independence: "La amazona" Juana Azurduy' Society of Latin American Studies conference, Manchester, April 2003
• Claire Brewster, 'Amazons or innocents?: women and Latin American independence', University of Manchester, May 2002
• Charlotte Liddell, "Women's position and education in Brazil: change and constancy in Nísia Floresta's early publications." (SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies), Manchester, April 2003)
• Charlotte Liddell, "From social rights to domestic duties: the changing emphasis of Nísia Floresta's Writings on the position of women in society." (WISPS (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies), Liverpool, June 2003)
• Charlotte Liddell, "Brazil's Uncle Tom: black complicity and white excuses in Nísia Floresta's 'antislavery' fiction." (PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies), Cambridge, February 2005)