Beneficencia, control social y disputas de las mujeres en el espacio público del sur bonaerense a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX

Abstract

At the end of the twentieth century, Argentina experimented a process of State consolidation and economic and social modernization. The women presence in the public sphere was in this period a very importamnte feature. This article analyzes that women participation in the public sphere in the south east of Buenos Aires province, in the context of a frontier society in transition to modernization and State construction. We recover the women participation in charity, and in what way they were social control politics objects and, at the same time, social control agents.