Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850-1910
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Shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation. Looking at a range of texts, Skinner identifies gender as a central concern at every level of society.