Feminism and education at the First International Women’s Congress. Buenos Aires 1910: inaugural speeches by Ernestina López and María Espíndola de Muñoz

This article consists of an analysis of the opening lectures delivered by two female educators at the First International Feminist Congress held in Buenos Aires in 1910. The first speech, of liberal character, was given by Argentine Ernestina López, and the second, with anarcho-socialist elements, b...

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Main Author: Rebolledo, Eunice
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024
Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/Cuadernos/article/view/45061
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Summary:This article consists of an analysis of the opening lectures delivered by two female educators at the First International Feminist Congress held in Buenos Aires in 1910. The first speech, of liberal character, was given by Argentine Ernestina López, and the second, with anarcho-socialist elements, by Chilean María Espíndola de Muñoz. With a gender-focused approach to the research of the history of education, a critical analysis of said speeches has been conducted from a Laclausian perspective, identifying topics in which the relevance of women’s education on their emancipation prevails. Within this epochal mood, the emerging social movement sheds light internationally on criticism of the patriarchal model from a perspective of rights in which meanings of education in women’s construction as social, political, and cultural beings are configured. Neither position is exclusionary of other expressions circulating the debates at the event. Keywords: Congress, women, education, feminism, emancipation.