Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)

The act of making visible women’s paid work constitutes one of the emerging signs of the processes of modernization that have affected Argentina since the last decades of the XIX century, with special emphasis on the city of Buenos Aires. This paper intends to approach the world of female administra...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:62801cb867f6400e93d7ce0a5c00b8c22021-12-02T10:33:12ZDactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.56160https://doaj.org/article/62801cb867f6400e93d7ce0a5c00b8c22009-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/56160https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The act of making visible women’s paid work constitutes one of the emerging signs of the processes of modernization that have affected Argentina since the last decades of the XIX century, with special emphasis on the city of Buenos Aires. This paper intends to approach the world of female administrative assistants – specifically the typists –, who, having attained a certain level of education, could aspire to further qualifications that would enable them to obtain better positions in relation to those attainable by factory workers. Our aim is to analyze the representations of these employees in several literary texts so as to characterize the specificities that such discourses attributed to this segment of paid women’s labor. In this way, we will also tackle the coincidences and tensions between the representations of typists and the normative commands imposed by gender–oriented identity models.Graciela QueiroloCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleadministrative jobsfemale workGenderrepresentationstypistsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2009)
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Gender
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Anthropology
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spellingShingle administrative jobs
female work
Gender
representations
typists
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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Graciela Queirolo
Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
description The act of making visible women’s paid work constitutes one of the emerging signs of the processes of modernization that have affected Argentina since the last decades of the XIX century, with special emphasis on the city of Buenos Aires. This paper intends to approach the world of female administrative assistants – specifically the typists –, who, having attained a certain level of education, could aspire to further qualifications that would enable them to obtain better positions in relation to those attainable by factory workers. Our aim is to analyze the representations of these employees in several literary texts so as to characterize the specificities that such discourses attributed to this segment of paid women’s labor. In this way, we will also tackle the coincidences and tensions between the representations of typists and the normative commands imposed by gender–oriented identity models.
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author Graciela Queirolo
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title Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
title_short Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
title_full Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
title_fullStr Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
title_full_unstemmed Dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en Buenos Aires (1920–1940)
title_sort dactilógrafa se necesita: representaciones de las empleadas administrativas en buenos aires (1920–1940)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2009
url https://doaj.org/article/62801cb867f6400e93d7ce0a5c00b8c2
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