Construyendo identidades desde la excepcionalidad: mujer, divorciada y maestra en Santiago de Cuba, siglo XIX

Lucía Provencio Garrigós

doi:10.3989/revindias.2008.i243.651

Constructing identities from exceptionality: woman, divorced and schoolteacher in Santiago de Cuba, 19th century

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Lucía Provencio Garrigós Universidad de Murcia

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2008.i243.651

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Baldomera Fuentes, Santiago de Cuba, 19th century, marriage, divorce, identity

Abstract

This work deals with a complex matter: the construction of female gender identity, and it does so though the figure of a paradigmatic woman: Baldomera Fuentes Segura (Santiago de Cuba 1807-1876), a cultivated, learned schoolteacher, married and divorced. She knew how to make her way in life, both personally and intellectually, from the exceptionality marked by the gender discourse, except for when she used her wit and intelligence both orally and in writing, to defend her autonomy as well as her personal and professional dignity, facing attacks which aimed to discredit her. Henceforth, her accusers (her husband and the Board of Public Instruction in Cuba) would turn her attributes as inappropriate for the female gender situation, as a wife and schoolteacher, being thus Baldomera an impossible exception.

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2008-08-30

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Provencio Garrigós, L. (2008). Constructing identities from exceptionality: woman, divorced and schoolteacher in Santiago de Cuba, 19th century. Revista De Indias, 68(243), 177–206. https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2008.i243.651

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Vol. 68 No. 243 (2008)

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