Abstract

PITA, Valeria S.. The art of petitioning: Life versions, political networks, and public requests from widows, elderly and working women. Buenos Aires, 1852-1870. Travesía (San Miguel de Tucumán) [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.1, pp.109-133. ISSN 2314-2707.

This article focuses on women who claimed pensions, monthly payments, relief or alms in the city of Buenos Aires between 1852 and 1870. It argues that their requests were political and that they sought to expand the frameworks of law and social assistance. By registering their requests in political terms, this research contemplates the margins of action of these women. It seeks to understand how the public expositions of their lives, the tracking of support for their requests, and the hierarchical, authoritarian and unequal links they established with former employers, notable neighbours, philanthropists, representatives of the church or other institutions of power were part of moves that attempted politically to generate a sense of responsibility, solidarity and justice in their favour.

Keywords : Demands; Rights; Women; Margins of action.

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