Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920

This work sets out to recognize in the urban scenes of Santiago and Valparaiso the diverse constructed sex-generic images around the figure of the cobradoras of streetcars, between years 1880 and 1920. From a specific conjuncture, the War of the Pacific and its implications like process extractor of...

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Main Author: Elisabet Prudant Soto
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2009-05-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/56152
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description This work sets out to recognize in the urban scenes of Santiago and Valparaiso the diverse constructed sex-generic images around the figure of the cobradoras of streetcars, between years 1880 and 1920. From a specific conjuncture, the War of the Pacific and its implications like process extractor of masculine manpower towards the north of the country, are investigated in the symbolic repercussions that the “visibilization” of this group of wage women generated in the public space. The case of the cobradoras of streetcars allows to determine the proportions how the feminine participation in a masculine labor field, generated ideologized opinions, reflection of the imaginary that were cultivated on the feminine work during this period.
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Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
public space
representations
modernization
sex-generic system
feminine work
title Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
title_full Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
title_fullStr Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
title_full_unstemmed Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
title_short Entre la infamia y el deleite. Las cobradoras de tranvías en Santiago de Chile y Valparaíso, 1880-1920
title_sort entre la infamia y el deleite las cobradoras de tranvias en santiago de chile y valparaiso 1880 1920
topic public space
representations
modernization
sex-generic system
feminine work
url https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/56152
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