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In the 1920s and 1930s, as Marcela Nari contends, women’s reproductive systems were under scrutiny; demographic changes brought about by immigration were perceived as a threat to the state’s goals of increasing population under the ideal of racial purity. 9 However, cultural representations of the period also describe women in new public roles that transcended such ideals, for as Unruh explains, women gained recognition in their roles as writers and intellectuals. Struggling with the division of cultural labor that confined them to the realm of the home, women “manifested an emergent feminism for its time: a distinct self-consciousness about gender, a recognition that the rhetoric or realities of modernity posed singular challenges for women, and keen attention to their own anomalous status as women writers” (23).
Struggling with the division of cultural labor that confined them to the realm of the home, women “manifested an emergent feminism for its time: a distinct self-consciousness about gender, a recognition that the rhetoric or realities of modernity posed singular challenges for women, and keen attention to their own anomalous status as women writers” (23). Experiences of travel and immigration also provided a new set of challenges for gendered spatial divisions. 10 Upper-class women ventured outside of the restrictive boundaries of the home and the domestic and began exploring new writing formats.
22 ● Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women’s Literature Within this same period, some women also engaged in this form of intellectual traveling, enjoying a certain level of mobility allowed by their class condition. Many of them, such as Victoria Ocampo and María Rosa Oliver, had traveled with their families to Europe since childhood—a common practice in Argentine aristocracies since the nineteenth century—and they wrote lengthy accounts of such experiences in their autobiographies. However, these international travel experiences also had a definite impact on women’s writing and on the formation of an identity for women within Argentinean literary culture, as Mónica Zsurmuk’s Women in Argentina: Early Travel Narratives demonstrates.