Imposing Decency

Findlay, Eileen J.

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“…15 Historians have long noted the power of stark discursive binaries in the consolidation of female gender norms. Usually, however, they seem to be structured around the poles of "respectable" and "dissolute" women (Findlay 1999;Farnsworth-Alvear 2000;Tinsman 2002). The Sandovals created their own binary within the category of feminine respectability.…”

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Cien por Ciento Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History

Findlay

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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reminds us that life histories do not simply provide empirical data for social histories. Rather, "they are related in such a way that they give meaning and purpose to the narrators." Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (2000, 199, 207) points out that such narratives can "blur the line between fact and fantasy, revealing more about how workers entered into one another's imaginations than about their on-the-ground interaction."

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“…Such moments serve to mark the Sandovals' struggle for justice and to denounce outsider groups and nations that have attempted to thwart this stalwart fight. Otherwise, the Sandovals refer to their own racial identity implicitly in their assertions of hard-won, gendered, workingclass respectability (Findlay 1999;Barcia 2003;Hoffnung-Garskof 2011).…”

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Cien por Ciento Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History

Findlay

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…By contrast, many prostitutes and other working-class women in Ponce and San Juan were recent arrivals. 54 In the 1870s to 1890s, women of the popular classes in both colonies faced patriarchal political projects that provided no leverage for them to justify social and economic demands in terms of political rights; not surprisingly, no working-class suffragism emerged in this period. Belizean Rican judicial decisions sought to make marriage more attractive, in different ways but with the same goal of promoting a "civilized domesticity" of male-headed households.…”

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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s

Macpherson¹

2014

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

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The engendering of Hispanic and Anglophone history being undertaken in the Caribbean still all too often proceeds along parallel paths, never quite meeting. -Jean Stubbs, "Gender in Caribbean History" This essay takes up Jean Stubbs's challenge to write gender histories that cross linguistic, national, and imperial lines; 1 in the process it makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in boundary-crossing research. Drawing on fruitful approaches to and examples of the genreincluding those contributed by historical sociologists-the essay illustrates the commensurability of apparently disparate cases through a discussion of Puerto Rico and Belize from abolition to the 1930s. In the process, it reveals the paucity of historiography on intra-Caribbean comparisons as well as racialized assumptions of binary difference still embedded in discussions about working women in the Spanish and British Caribbeans. Through both critique and illustration, it maps out a methodology for doing comparative gender history rooted in comparisons across spectrums of similarity and difference at the levels of social life, economic activity, and political choice.

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“…12 Similar to their liberal counterparts in Puerto Rico, Blue presidents in the Dominican Republic turned to reform, and reforming women in particular, in order to bring even a small part of their social vision into fruition, despite the myriad of problems they faced. 13 For the purposes of social reform, liberal elites found in Eugenio María de Hostos's mantra, 'Civilisation or Death', a clarion call for addressing Dominicans' 'backwardness'. Hostos was a positivist who critically applied the philosophies of intellectuals such as Karl Kraus, Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte to the problem of nation building in Latin America.…”

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“…As in Puerto Rico, Dominican elite and aspiring women's 'consciousness of themselves as a group with particular interests' occurred when they 'called attention to the complicity of men of their own class in the subordination of women'. 57 In the Dominican Republic, this consciousness took concrete form in the founding of the AFD.…”

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Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s

Mayes

2008

Gender & History

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This article analyses feminism in the Dominican Republic, and the rightward shift of the women's movement in the 1930s and 1940s, by examining the historical development of female activism in the Dominican Republic from the 1880s until the first decade of General Rafael Trujillo's regime in the 1940s. The article argues that elite female activists, most of whom were white or light‐skinned, allied themselves with the right‐wing politics of General Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship because his vision of elite women's activism complemented the class and colour interests of a select group of female reformers. Dominican feminism's rightward shift also resulted from the monopolisation of political power under the Dominican Party; the veneration of elite, bourgeois womanhood in official state iconography; the elaboration of Hispanidad nationalism; and the rejection of feminism's early roots in the political philosophy of Eugenio María de Hostos. As a result, Dominican feminism's origins in left‐leaning, potentially radical politics were ignored and erased by leading activists.

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Imposing Decency

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Cien por Ciento Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History

Cien por Ciento Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History

Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s

Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s

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