In the terms of their benefactors: meetings between workers and the ladies of the charity society, Buenos Aires, 1852 - 1870.
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n2p41Keywords:
Charitable Society, Buenos Aires, tutelageAbstract
This article focuses on the complex relationship established between the ladies of the Society of Beneficence of Buenos Aires and diverse groups of women connected to the worlds of labor, who became, at a certain point of their lives, under the protection of the Society, from 1852 to 1870. Through judicial sources, official writings of the Society of Beneficence, as well as letters and requests of economic support from women workers, this article engages on a dialogue with the historiography on beneficence, philantropy and charity. By assuming that such practices were forms of social discipline, such historiography missed that what happened under the label of “beneficence” can be considered as complex cultural encounters. In this way, some concepts, such as virtue, were crucial to define the terms of class and gender relationships between those women.
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