Feminismos estéticos y antiestéticos en el Ecuador de principios del siglo XX: un análisis de género y generaciones

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Kim Clark

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The essay analyses legal and social changes that women experienced during the years prior to the Liberal Revolution of 1895. A majority of the pioneering women in Ecuadorian public life carne from the middle and upper classes. The study focuses on the cases of María Luisa Gómez de la Torre, teacher and sole woman participant in the foundation of the Socialist party of Ecuador; and Matilde Hidaldo de Prócel, the first licensed woman doctor, first to vote as a woman, and the first congresswoman elected in Ecuador. The article investiga tes whether these institutional changes were a result bestowed from above, or a social struggle fought from below.

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Clark, K. . (2005). Feminismos estéticos y antiestéticos en el Ecuador de principios del siglo XX: un análisis de género y generaciones. Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana De Historia, 1(22), 85–105. https://doi.org/10.29078/rp.v1i22.229
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