Abstract

DELLARCIPRETE, Rubén. WOMAN'S REPRESENTATION IN THE ANGERTINIAN NARRATIVE AT THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY. AN IMAGINING STUDY ABOUT THE BODY AND THE FEMALE MORAL. La Palabra [online]. 2014, n.25, pp.93-103. ISSN 0121-8530.

From our corpus of analysis it could be inferred that in a social field dominated by men, the autonomy of the female gender, far from be claimed, it was represented as madness, hysteria or neurosis, mental states that were considered common pathologies of the woman "due to her natural predisposition". At the end of 19th century, the professionals involved in the medical sciences had become supervising social that they decoded/deciphered and controlled the language of bodies. They determined the possibility of their capture system and their network of domain and assessed their feasibility for inclusion in socio-economic modernity. The writers did not escape to the conservative conception of the moral code that defined the "irresponsible" behaviour. Literature officiated as mediation in the service of the dominant interests, as a symbolic response to the progressive modification of the social place that women began to occupy in the culture of the Río de la Plata.

Keywords : Argentina narrative of late 19th century; autonomy of women; positivism; economic liberalism.

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