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The intellectual networks from Rio de la Plata of the Uruguayan doctor Paulina Luisi: another face of the feminist internationalism of the nineteenth century

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No. 17 (2021): October-May. Dossier: Women's Suffrage in Latin America: National Alliances and Transnational Politics
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.64854
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This article looks into the Uruguayan feminist internationalism of the early decades of the 20th century through the analysis of the “intellectual networks” forged by doctor Paulina Luisi. It particularly follows her contacts with several other academic leaders of the Argentine feminist movement. To do so, we focus on Luisi's private correspondence with these women. Those letters reveal how their common issues and concerns crossed State borders and led them to undertake joint action, including campaigns supporting the ban on prostitution, equal ethics for both sexes or the “social hygiene” movement. But they also show their disagreements about the strategies to be followed in order to achieve their feminist goals. Those discrepancies, tainted with personal misgivings, eventually stood in the way of the achievement of their goals.

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feminism, suffragist movement, internationalism, intellectual networks, history of the River Plate's region
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Cuadro, I. (2021). The intellectual networks from Rio de la Plata of the Uruguayan doctor Paulina Luisi: another face of the feminist internationalism of the nineteenth century. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (17), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.64854
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Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
Universidad de Chile
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