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Ten Notable Women of Modern Latin America
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Ten Notable Women of Modern Latin America
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In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an
isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the "Paris
of South America"--Buenos Aires. There, with few connections,
little education, but plenty of persistence, Maria Eva Duarte
gained a toehold in the city's artistic scene. Eva--Evita--rode the
radio revolution to fortune, providing for her mother and siblings.
She caught the eye of rising political star Colonel Juan Perón,
and with him, she rode the pro-labor wave all the way to the
presidential palace. The story of Eva Duarte Perón highlights not
just her own extraordinary life but the opportunities seized by
women of all classes and background in a post-independence,
modernizing Latin America. This work offers an alternate method for
understanding post-independence Latin America and its history. The
ten figures treated are ethnically mixed, of African, indigenous,
European, and mestizo heritage. They include figures from all
social classes, geographic settings, occupations seen in colonial
Latin America, and they acted over the entirety of the more three
centuries of the colonial period. Through their stories, the reader
comes away with an enriched understanding of this rich, diverse
region.
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