First-Wave Feminism and Women's Civil and Political Rights in South America

This book analyzes the context, process and content of the reform of married women's property rights in seven Spanish-speaking South American countries - Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela - between 1900 and the early 1950s.It investigates how the reforms enacted earlier in the United States, England and continental Europe and national antecedents and conditions infor...