Fashioning Femininity: Gender, Dress, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Colombia = Mujeres y...

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  • Título: Fashioning Femininity: Gender, Dress, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Colombia = Mujeres y Moda: Género, traje e identidad en la Colombia decimonónica
  • Autor: Beltrán Rubio, Laura Liliana
  • Publicación original: 2016
  • Descripción física: PDF
  • Notas generales:
    • Colombia
    • The nineteenth century was a period of great change for most Latin American nations, which gained independence from a decaying Spanish Empire and saw their birth as republics and engaged in a process of social, political and economic change in the construction of a national identity. In this process, the work of artists and writers was of particular importance, as it was meant to spread around the newborn republics the invented traditions and cultural imaginary upon which a strictly gendered idea of nationhood was to be founded. Negotiating between traditional/colonial and progressive/republican values, writers and artists created a gendered notion of the “ideal Colombian” through their works, and relegated the Colombian woman to the domestic field, the ideal of womanhood being one of pure and submissive virginity.

      Although such works highlighted certain characteristics of personality, they also emphasized the importance of appearances, of manners, and of fashion/dress. This thesis focuses on the portrayal of femininity through dress: it studies the construction of the ideal Colombian woman through the clothes she wears in two novels, Jorge Isaacs’ María (1867) and Eugenio Díaz Castro’s Manuela (1858), and the watercolors produced by Carmelo Fernández, Henry Price, and Manuel María Paz for the Comisión Corográfica, this work identifies the different ways in which the specific characteristics of the ideal Colombian woman of the nineteenth century are portrayed through dress, as well as the potential opportunities for the subversion of such ideals and the creation of alternative forms of femininity.
  • Notas de reproducción original: Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
  • Notas:
    • Resumen: Dress History; Nineteenth Century; Femininity; Foundational Fictions; Costumbrismo; Historia del traje; Siglo XIX; Feminidad; Ficciones fundacionales; Costumbrismo
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  • Forma/género: tesis
  • Idioma: inglés
  • Institución origen: Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República
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