An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence

Josefa Amar y Borbón

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

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Biography:
She wrote Discurso sobre la educación física y moral de las mujeres, 1790. She objected to the idea that girls should be attractive and obedient and expanded Feijóo’s idea that with proper instruction women could be equal to men, to insist on their education. Zoraida Vásquez points out that Amar y Borbón was “less of an innovator than Feijóo and Campomanes” because she claimed that this prevented them from becoming “true human beings to the detriment of their husbands and children” (Zoraida Vásquez, 20). Lavrin claims that she influenced Lizardi (Lavrin, 28).

Her Discurso was published in Madrid, by B. Cano in 1790. (Scott, 264)

References:

Cevallos-Candua, Francisco Javier; Cole, Jeffrey A.; Scott, Nina M.; Suáurez-Araúz, Nicomedes (editor). (1994) Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America
Lavrin, Asunción (editor). (1978) Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives; Contributions in Women's Studies, No.3.
Yeager, Gertrude M. Series Editor: Maclachlan, William H. Beezley and Colin M. (editor). (1994) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History
Arrom, Silvia Marina (1985) The women of Mexico City, 1790-1857
Davies, Catherine, Brewster, Claire and Owen, Hilary (2006) South American Independence. Gender, Politics, Text