"El patriotismo de la mujer" (1876) by Mercedes Cabello: Resignifications, displacement, and tension in the articulation of a feminist genealogy

Pino L.A.M. · 452ºF (2022) · DOI: 10.1344/452f.2022.26.9

Resumen

This paper studies the essay “El patriotismo de la mujer” by Mercedes Cabello (1876) from a feminist perspective. In this text, Cabello presents a monolithic reading of the Battle of Callao, whose outcome was controversial. By this means, she also brings to the surface women's participation in national history, something that constituted a submerged knowledge at the time. Hence, I delve onto the strategies through which Cabello re-signifies the “generic” category of “women” in order to articulate a feminist genealogy marked by the constant displacement within generic and nominal forms of the feminine (Valcárcel, 1994). I believe a detailed reading of these displacements is key to pondering the particularities, implications, and silences of the feminist discourse-object-reality of the time. © Luz Ainaí Morales Pino - Licencia: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional de Creative Commons

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú