Ten Notable Women of Modern Latin America
Suzanne M Litrel author James D Henderson author Linda R Henderson author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:27th Oct '23
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the “Paris of South America”—Buenos Aires. There, with few connections, little education, but plenty of persistence, Maria Eva Duarte gained a toehold in the city’s artistic scene. Eva—Evita—then navigated the radio revolution to fortune, providing for her mother and siblings along the way. She caught the eye of rising political star Colonel Juan Perón, and with him, she rode the pro-labor wave all the way to the presidential palace. The story of Eva Duarte Perón highlights not just her own extraordinary life, but the opportunities seized by women of all classes and backgrounds in post-independence modernizing Latin America.
This work offers an alternate method for understanding modern Latin America and its history. The ten figures treated are ethnically mixed, of African, Indigenous, European, and mestiza heritage. They include figures from all social classes, geographic settings, and occupations seen in Latin America, and they acted over the entirety of the more than two centuries of the modern period. Through their stories, the reader comes away with a deeper understanding of this rich, diverse region.
Updated and thoroughly revised, this new edition promises to be an excellent teaching tool due to its breadth of coverage of all Latin America, its informed description of women’s roles in each era, and its accessible narrative. I assigned a previous edition in my survey courses for years, and inevitably students cited it as their favorite book. In a field remarkably bereft of readable textbooks, this book is a rare gem—a volume guaranteed to engage the attention and enthusiasm of undergraduates. -- Jane M. Rausch, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Spanning two centuries—and in an engaging and readable text—Ten Notable Women in Modern Latin America provides a diversity of women’s experiences from all walks of life. These characteristics make this book an ideal text for an introduction to Latin American history. -- Pilar M. Herr, associate professor of history, University of Pittsburgh, Greenburg
ISBN: 9781538153024
Dimensions: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
Weight: 585g
264 pages