Images of Virtuous Women: Morality, Gender and Power in Argentina between the World Wars

Autor:	Ana Lía Rey, María Fernanda Lorenzo, Cecilia Tossounian
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	History Virtue media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Gender studies Morality Gender Studies Power (social and political) Alliance Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) State (polity) Political science Elite Institution Opening ceremony media_common
Zdroj:	Gender History. 17:567-592
ISSN:	1468-0424 0953-5233
DOI:	10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00397.x
Popis:	Early in 1823 the Minister for Home Affairs and president-to-be of Argentina, Bernardino Rivadavia, created the Beneficent Society and established the Awards for Virtue (Premios a la Virtud). In his speech at the opening ceremony of the Beneficent Society, Rivadavia claimed that the new institution should pursue ‘moral perfection and spiritual work in the fair sex, dedication to industrious activities, which results from the combination of these attributes’. This philanthropic institution, made up of women belonging to the Porteno (Buenos Aires) elite, took up the beneficent side of the state. As a true representative of the Argentine liberal tradition, Rivadavia intended to deprive the Church of its central role in charitable activities and to give a new role to damas laicas (lay ladies) in taking care of other women and improving them both intellectually and morally. This early and strong alliance between public power and the most renowned elite women had the main goal of developing civic virtues in future citizens by raising and educating them within the scope of the moral qualities these women embodied. The rules of the Awards for Virtue read
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