Abstract

My dissertation explains how education became a topic that allowed women to experiment with coalition building and public-facing politics, making the school a transformative space for female organizing. The schoolteacher became a position that opened new possibilities for women of different social classes, races, and ethnicities, fostering an international intellectual network. I follow the lifelines of various women of letters from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century in Latin America and trace how their political discourse on education allowed them to participate in the public sphere. By focusing on their intellectual production alongside their biographies, I demonstrate a strategic contradiction between their traditionalist arguments to defend women’s education and their lived realities, often at odds with their ideals of femininity.

Committee Chair

William Acree

Committee Members

Akiko Tsuchiya; Diana Montaño; Javier García-Liendo; Vanesa Miseres

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Author's Department

Romance Languages and Literature: Hispanic Studies

Author's School

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Document Type

Dissertation

Date of Award

8-13-2024

Language

Spanish (es)

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