Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910

"Whether considering public or private spaces, domesticity, work, or education, this book provides sophisticated readings of a broad range of narratives that illustrate the tensions brought about in discussions of gender and its relation to modernity in Spanish America."—Fernando Unzueta, author of La imaginación histórica y el romance nacional en Hispanoamérica



"A key resource for the study of modernity in Latin American literature and its related fields: women and gender studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and beyond."—Nancy LaGreca, author of Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903

"Looks at how men and women writers in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Latin America understood the role of women in the advancement of their countries as they entered modernity. . . . Reveals how gender became the eye of a longstanding social storm."—Choice



“Illustrates convincingly how women’s role in society became a crucial battleground in determining contemporary projects of national modernization across Latin America. . . . A significant contribution that will engage both specialists in modern Latin American studies and scholars from other disciplines.”—Modernism/Modernity