South American Independence(English, Hardcover, Davies Catherine)

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South American Independence(English, Hardcover, Davies Catherine) is written by Davies Catherine and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 184631027X (ISBN 10) and 9781846310270 (ISBN 13).

The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings, South American Independence reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.