Womanhood and race in interwar Puerto Rico : labile bodies, colonial disparities /
This book examines 'womanhood' and 'race' not only as disputed, converging, and constantly changing categories and lived experiences, but also as interrelated and unequal subjectivities and social realties that shaped all early-twentieth century Puerto Ricans. It empirically docu...
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Labile Bodies and Historiography
- 2. Poverty, Scandalous Behavior, Women's Rights, and Liminal 'Womanhood': The Racialized Embodiments of Modernity's Chaotic Underside
- 3. Antonia Sáez Torres and the Cultural Uplift of the Laboring Poor: A Life in Teaching and Defending the Spanish Language
- 4. "Our [Woman] in Havana": Muna Lee de Muñoz Speaking for Puerto Rican Womanhood at the 1928 Sixth Pan American Conference in Cuba
- 5. The Disparities of Nacionalista Womanhood: Dominga de la Cruz Becerril and Trina Padilla de Sanz
- 6. Carmen María Colón Pellot and Clara Lair: The Gendered Racialization of the 1930s Literary Debate on the National Question
- 7. Pura Belpré at the New York Public Library During the Harlem Renaissance
- 8. Conclusion: Encountering Colonial Disparities.