Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940

by June E. Hahner

Book Overview

June E. Hahner's pioneering work, Emancipating the Female Sex, offers the first comprehensive history of the struggle for women's rights in Brazil. Based on previously undiscovered primary sources and fifteen years of research, Hahner's study provides long-overdue recognition of the place of women in Latin American history. Hahner traces the history of Brazilian women's fight for emancipation from its earliest manifestations in the mid-nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310694
• ISBN13: 9780822310693
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"