While most academic works on women’s suffrage in Argentina focus on the Peronist period, Gregory Hammond places the law granting women the right to vote in a long- term context. The main objective of his book is to explain why, even though both the demand for suffrage and active feminist organizations had existed for decades, Argentine women gained the right to vote only in 1947.
The author traces female participation in the public sphere since the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as the beginning of feminist movements at the turn of the twentieth century. He offers a thorough analysis of the first experiences of women associations in Argentina, emphasizing that their internal fragmentation, based on factors like class and political ideology, affected both the scope of their aims and their effectiveness. Suffragist arguments aroused controversy among men due to the increased competition for employment caused by women’s...
