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- Title
Overthrowing the Floresta-Wollstonecraft Myth for Latin American Feminism.
- Authors
Botting, Eileen Hunt; Matthews, Charlotte Hammond
- Abstract
Nísia Floresta’s Direitos Das Mulheres E Injustiça Dos Homens (Rights of Women and Injustice of Men) (1832) is often cited as one of the founding texts of Brazilian and Latin American feminism. We present conclusive evidence that Direitos was not a loose translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman (1792), but was in fact a translation of an earlier Enlightenment feminist text, as found in an 1826 book by Frenchman César Gardeton. We situate this discovery within a genealogy of the use of Wollstonecraft as a feminist political symbol for Latin American feminism and the movement’s international character, often in ways that distorted the facts of Wollstonecraft’s life, work and legacies.
- Subjects
LATIN America; DIREITOS das mulheres e injustica dos homens (Book); FLORESTA, Nisia; WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797; FEMINISM; VINDICATION of the Rights of Woman, A (Book : Wollstonecraft); WOMAN Not Inferior to Man (Book); GARDETON, Cesar; FEMINIST literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Gender & History, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12052