WOMEN’S WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE SOCIALIST PARTY: THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS OF 1916 IN ARGENTINA

Authors

  • Silvana Alejandra Palermo Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento -Conicet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/es.v55i1.7681

Keywords:

Socialist Party, electoral campaign, gender, Juana María Begino

Abstract

This study examines women’s participation in the electoral campaigns of the Socialist Party, in particular the presidential campaign of 1916. This analysis is based on a variety of sources: official documents from the Socialist Party, the Socialist press and two popular magazines, Caras y Caretas and Fray Mocho. This article argues that the notorious strength demonstrated by the Socialists to mobilize owes to their previous experience in electoral and public participation, in which women played a vital role, and also due to the fact that the commercial press became a prominent mean of communication of the Socialist creed, an appropriate instrument to make socialist women’s words and faces know to a larger public.

Author Biography

Silvana Alejandra Palermo, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento -Conicet

Investigadora Adjunta del Conicet con sede en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional de General
Sarmiento, Argentina.

Published

2018-11-22

How to Cite

Palermo, S. A. (2018). WOMEN’S WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE SOCIALIST PARTY: THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS OF 1916 IN ARGENTINA. Estudios Sociales, 55(2), 121–146. https://doi.org/10.14409/es.v55i1.7681