Evita, women and men,by Dr. Marta Raquel Zabaleta 21th birthday.
Feminine Stereotypes and Roles in Theory and Practice in Argentina Before and After the First Lady Eva Peron: v. 9 (Latin American Studies Series) Hardcover – 1 Oct. 2000
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2003
This excellent book on Latin American women, men and politics in Argentina during the XX Century, is written by a leading female academic on the subject of Gender. The book addresses questions of discourse, culture, identity, politics and history from a gendered perspective which appeals to a wide range of academic needs.
Marta Zabaleta, formerly a United Nation refugee who suffered for political persecution in Argentina - her country of origin - and Pinochet's Chile, looks at how national identity was shaped, gendered, accepted, and/or contested by Argentinian women of different class extraction and diverse degrees of awareness of their social subordination, since the formation of the modern Argentine State to the present days. The book includes imaginative new readings of previous interpretations of Peronism, such as the offered by E. Laclau, E. De Ipola, and Carol Hollander; revises the economic and political conditions which allowed Peronism to obtain and retain power during the 40s and early 50s, and its increasingly authoritarian nature after the death of Eva Perón. The State policies towards the working-class family, the separate branch of the party for women, the position and influence of the couple Juan and Eva Perón are among the complex issues discussed. Such issues are always shown in comparison with similar examples taken from countries such as Castro's Cuba, Allende's Chile, and Sandinist's Nicaragua. A brilliant, unique, and seminal interpretation of the speeches of Evita and Peron for women is offered, and conclusions drawn about the rationality of women behavior in Latin American politics, in view of the roles played by the Catholic Church, male-oriented ideologies, and political parties in keeping women as the second/third genders and citizens.
In a very exciting departure, the Epilogue shows the similarities among sexual female icons apparently so different as Evita and Diana, the opportunity the author uses to call for new ways of collective actions to overcome all kinds of imagined frontiers who divide women in Argentina and everywhere, including or starting, by the ideological notion of 'the nation'.
Marta Zabaleta, formerly a United Nation refugee who suffered for political persecution in Argentina - her country of origin - and Pinochet's Chile, looks at how national identity was shaped, gendered, accepted, and/or contested by Argentinian women of different class extraction and diverse degrees of awareness of their social subordination, since the formation of the modern Argentine State to the present days. The book includes imaginative new readings of previous interpretations of Peronism, such as the offered by E. Laclau, E. De Ipola, and Carol Hollander; revises the economic and political conditions which allowed Peronism to obtain and retain power during the 40s and early 50s, and its increasingly authoritarian nature after the death of Eva Perón. The State policies towards the working-class family, the separate branch of the party for women, the position and influence of the couple Juan and Eva Perón are among the complex issues discussed. Such issues are always shown in comparison with similar examples taken from countries such as Castro's Cuba, Allende's Chile, and Sandinist's Nicaragua. A brilliant, unique, and seminal interpretation of the speeches of Evita and Peron for women is offered, and conclusions drawn about the rationality of women behavior in Latin American politics, in view of the roles played by the Catholic Church, male-oriented ideologies, and political parties in keeping women as the second/third genders and citizens.
In a very exciting departure, the Epilogue shows the similarities among sexual female icons apparently so different as Evita and Diana, the opportunity the author uses to call for new ways of collective actions to overcome all kinds of imagined frontiers who divide women in Argentina and everywhere, including or starting, by the ideological notion of 'the nation'.
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