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The Indigenous Woman in the Therapeutic-Enlightened Project of Peru (1861-1889)

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The article investigates the emergence of the problem of Indigenous women to the critical horizon of the scientific mentality that, in the second part of 19th century, manages the emancipatory project of Peru as an organic response to the spiritual, scientific, intellectual, and ethical-political crisis that is the natural consequence of the collapse of the archaic colonial regime in Peru and the Andean region. Consequently, in this paper I propose to discuss the historical-formative, epistemological, semantic-resignifying, constructive, and attitudinal aspects that intervene in the scientific formulation of problem follow: how the Indigenous woman integrates into republican life? In this sense, the present research inquiries in the Juana Manuela Gorriti’s “Si haces mal no esperes bien” (1861), Manuel Pardo’s “Medidas económicas del Congreso de 1860” (1861), Manuel González Prada’s “Speech at the Politeama Theater” (1888) and “Our Indians” (1904), and Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Aves sin nido… (1889) discourses about Indigenous woman situation. All these authors coincide, for one hand, in asseveration that the exclusion and subordination of Andean woman is the stone angular of patriarchal and colonial archaic system, and, for other hand, in affirmation that the democratic and republican modern system need integrates her like rights subject for to progress and development fully. Applying hermeneutical-comparative method, gender approach, and critical-historical vision about formative process of Peru and Andean region, this article explains the complicated process through which Indigenous women become protagonists in critical-reflective studies and, above all, producers of discourse and, therefore, of discursive criticism. This contribution concludes that, not only in contemporary specialized studies, but in political-social reality, the integration of Indigenous women into Peruvian citizenship continues to be a current and ongoing challenge.

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.hss.20231104.11
Page(s) 114-126
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Indigenous Woman, Therapeutic-Illustrated Project, Emancipation, Discursive Criticism

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