Female Ideal in Argentine Society

Dona Maria Roldan was a prominent female supporter of Juan Peron and a representative of the laborista party as a shop steward in ArgentinaÆs meat-packing industry. Eva Duarte Peron, ôEvita,ö was the wife of the president and her nationÆs most famous woman. Each was empowered and restricted by the boundaries of ArgentinaÆs definition of the role women ôoughtö to play in society and the confines of being members of the working class. These limitations allowed both to do important work but also defined the way in which they were permitted to view themselves and talk and think about what they were able to accomplish.

One of the most significant political accomplishments attributed to Eva Peron was securing the right to vote for women in Argentina. James quotes Dona Maria: ôI feel wounded many times when my husband on election day says, the people have voted, and I say to him, no the people didnÆt vote, half the people voted, because a woman is a citizenö (42), while Evita write, ôWith [the vote] we women . . . have to win . . . the great right of being simply women, and thus being able to fulfill, totally and absolutely, the mission that, as women, we have to perform for humanityö (182). Both viewed the right to vote as ess

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