Szurmuk, Monica. Women in Argentina. Early Travel Narratives

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Gainsville: UP of Florida, 2001. 144 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1889-7

In this slim but inviting study, Monica Szurmuk traces the development of Women's travel writing in Argentina from 1830 to 1930. According to the author, this project was undertaken:

 
   ... in order to show the complexity of women's inclusion in 
   discourses of collective identities. I argue that women--and the 
   feminine--took on different roles at different moments of 
   Argentinean history. I show how white women's access to print 
   culture and political life was argued in terms not only of gender 
   but also of ethnicity. I therefore delve into questions of 
   whiteness and debate how …