Abstract

PEREZ GERARDO, Diana Roselly. The Women of the American Frontiers in the Cientific Expedition of Jean-François de Galaup: Santa Catarina, Concepción and Monterrey (Eighteenth-century). Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.2, pp.225-254.  Epub May 30, 2021. ISSN 0122-2066.  https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v26n2-2021008.

The circumnavigation voyage led by Jean-François de Galaup, count de la Pérouse (1785-1788) is one of the scientific expeditions sent to America in the Eighteenth- century. Through the analysis of his travel diaries, this article focuses on the representa- tions of mestizo, criollo, and indigenous women who lived in three different American borderlands: the island of Santa Catarina in Brazil; the Bahía de la Concepción in Chile and Monterrey in California. As women were not conceived by the illustrated travelers as an object of observation, the testimonials found are linked to the description of female work, the domestic and family sphere or sexuality, and transgressions considered as such by the male point of view. From the comparison among the three spaces, it is possible to differentiate the unequal agency possibilities of women in these spaces.

Keywords : Tesauro: Woman; Scientific Expedition; Borderland; Eighteenth- Century; Jean-François de Galaup; Conde La Pérouse.

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