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The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel
to Latin America, where a new political independence was
accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions
resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because
this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a
small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the
people and places that they encountered. Women through Women's Eyes
draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin
America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a
number of Latin American women into focus: nuns, market women,
plantation workers, the wives and daughters of landowners and
politicians, and even a heroine of the independence movement.
Questions of family life, religion, women's labor, and education
are addressed, in addition to the interrelationships of men and
women within the structure of Latin American societies. Women
through Women's Eyes is a perceptive look at Latin American women
from various walks of life during this period. Within these pages,
the reader catches lengthy glimpses of the women on both sides of
the travel accounts-author and subject-and thereby may examine them
all and their societies close-up.
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Nadine Gordimer
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Discovery Miles 1 640
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