{"id":7490,"date":"2011-08-03T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2011-08-03T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:34:40","slug":"apsu-professors-new-book-examines-womens-suffrage-movement-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/03\/apsu-professors-new-book-examines-womens-suffrage-movement-in-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Professor’s New Book Examines Women’s Suffrage Movement in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 1947, women in Argentina were finally given the right to vote. Jubilant crowds took to the streets, and the country\u2019s first lady, Eva (Evita) Per\u00f3n was hailed as a hero for her role in spearheading the new law.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>But Dr. Gregory Hammond, assistant professor of history at Austin Peay State University, points out that not all women were happy by this historic turn of events. In his new book, \u201cThe Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina from Roca to Per\u00f3n,\u201d he argues that some of that country\u2019s most ardent feminists were against the Per\u00f3n government enacting the new law.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the great irony,\u201d Hammond said. \u201cThe early generation of feminists, the ones who had worked for four decades in some cases, were all opponents of (President Juan) Per\u00f3n. They thought he was basically a Fascist. Peron had said things in the past that indicated he supported Mussolini. And they believed if women got the right to vote from Per\u00f3n, then they would vote for Per\u00f3n.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what happened. In the next election, women voted for Per\u00f3n in higher numbers than men did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat ultimately is the point I\u2019m trying to make in this book,\u201d Hammond said. \u201cThat women\u2019s suffrage tends to succeed when there is a political movement that can take advantage of that new constituency, that can appeal to women voters. The Per\u00f3nists were brilliant at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammond\u2019s fascinating new book covers the entire 47-year span of the women\u2019s suffrage movement in Argentina, beginning with Dr. Cecilia Grierson\u2019s founding of the National Council of Women of Argentina in 1900. The book then moves through the next four decades, detailing the similarities and differences between women\u2019s suffrage movements in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

Julia E. Rodriguez, author of \u201cCivilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State,\u201d described Hammond\u2019s book as \u201ca compelling, readable narrative. It presents a convincing (and interesting) analysis of the complicated path to legal equality for women in Argentina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammond started looking into this topic while he was still a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. He wrote his dissertation on the subject, and after graduating, he traveled to Argentina to continue his research and expand the work into a book-length manuscript.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found that very few scholars had actually looked at this issue of women\u2019s suffrage and the women\u2019s movement in Latin America,\u201d Hammond said. \u201cI decided this was a story that needed to be explored in a little more depth, and this was the result.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University of New Mexico Press is publishing the book, and it should be available in bookstores and online in September. For more information on the book, or on women\u2019s suffrage in Latin America, contact Hammond at hammondg@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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