Estrattivismo al femminile: storie di donne nell'industria del caucciù (Amazzonia boliviana 1880-1920)

The article analyses the exploitation of elastic rubber in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920), which played a crucial role in the definitive colonisation of the eastern part of the country. The goal of the paper is to describe the diverse roles women played in the several stages and contexts of rubber...

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Autor principal: Córdoba, Lorena Isabel
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Lenguaje:Italiano
Publicado: Università di Bologna. Dipartimento Lingue e Letterature Straniere 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/19166
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Sumario:The article analyses the exploitation of elastic rubber in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920), which played a crucial role in the definitive colonisation of the eastern part of the country. The goal of the paper is to describe the diverse roles women played in the several stages and contexts of rubber extraction, aiming at documenting the operation of the extractive machinery from a female point of view and also to reconstruct the historical agency of the Creole, Indigenous and European women left out of the historical sources by the hypermasculinising bias of Amazonian history.