Marysa Navarro

Research on Latin American Women

The main purpose of Latin American research on women is to analyze the Latin American social formation and understand how the capitalist mode of production in its dependent form operates. As Latin American women cannot be excluded in studies of social formation they are studied in the context of their roles in each Latin American country in an urban or rural setting in their class and in their family. Although capitalism is the prevailing mode of production other modes of production resulting from a long historical process coexist with it. Elizabeth Jelin concludes that because there are 4 types of production (simple production of merchandise and state household and capitalist production) a new classification of work and nonwork should be made and that the concept of economic activity should be disaggregated; furthermore the household should be adopted as a unit of analysis. The household is a useful socioeconomic unit of analysis as it is the context in which urban/rural women live work and raise children . Also the household enables researchers to see the articulation of various modes of production and strategies adopted for the survival of its members in the face of economic crisis (e.g. insufficient wages). Generally most of the literature on women focuses on well-established research areas. Little attention however is given to such topics as upper- and middle-class women political participation sex roles autonomy over ones bodies and images of women.

Evita, Historia y Mitología

Analisis de dos visiones antagonicas –tanto de la persona de Eva Peron como de lo que ella representaba en el gobierno de Juan Domingo Peron– y de como con el correr de los anos estas representaciones de Evita han conformado una verdadera mitologia que tiene hasta nuestros dias una vitalidad exuberante.

Wonder Woman was Argentine and her Real Name was Evita

AbstractMost of what has been written about Eva Peron is generally accepted as historical reality, though it is not the result of rigorous scholarly research. This article analyzes some examples of Evita “myths” and attempts to explain their origin.