Sandra Mcgee Deutsch

Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation

A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical analysis of Jewish women's role in Argentina from the late 19th through the first half of 20th century, arguing that they crossed racial, gender-based, and ideological boundaries as they helped shape the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346579
• ISBN-10: 0822346575
• Artikelnr.: 29933149

Autorenporträt

Sandra McGee Deutsch is Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1939 and Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1932: The Argentine Patriotic League.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Women xi
Introduction 1
1. "If Water Is Sweet": Jewish Women in the Countryside 13
2. "I Worked, I Struggled": Jewish Women in Buenos Aires 42
3. "A Point of Connection": Pathways into the Professions 73
4. "Not a Novice": Prostitutes 105
5. "A Bad Reputation": Family and Sexuality 123
6. "What Surrounds Us Dissatisfies Us": Leftists and Union Members through
the 1930s 148
7. "A Dike Against Reaction": Contesting Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and
Peronism 172
8. "We the Women Have to Do Something": Philanthropies and Zionism 205
Conclusion 236
Appendix 249
Notes 257
Bibliography 319
Index 363