123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Suffragettes, <i>Mujeres Nuevas</i>, and Beauty Contests: Political Women in Argentina, Peru, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth Century

Suffragettes, Mujeres Nuevas, and Beauty Contests: Political Women in Argentina, Peru, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth Century

Conference on Latin American History 15

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Park Suite 2 (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Papers:

Electing “Miss Sefaradí”: Sephardic Jewish Women, Zionism, and Ethnic and National Identities in Argentina, 1935–60
Adriana M. Brodsky, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Mujeres Nuevas in Peru’s New Politics: Magda Portal Theorizes Women’s Political Participation in 1930s Peru
Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, Roanoke College

“We Want a Mrs. Pankhurst”: World War I and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Jamaica
Reena N. Goldthree, Dartmouth College

Comment:

Jose C. Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University

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