Las mujeres paraguayas en la economía campesina (siglo XIX): entre lo invisible y lo pintoresco

• Autores: Bárbara Potthast
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 40, 2003, págs. 203-220
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This article raises the question of how to describe and measure the importance of subsistence activities enlightening the role of women in 19th century Paraguay, which was a classical subsistence or peasant economy. A focus is set upon the gendered division of labour, where men were mostly employed in export activities (yerba mate, wood, cattle-raising) or did military-service, whereas fieldwork was predominantly in the hand of women. They were also active in petty trade and craft. Narrative accounts and judicial records provide a general concept, whereas an idea of the importance of the work of women in quantitative terms can be gained from lists of rents paid (or due) for state-owned parcels of land, passports, licences for small shops and production, as well as receipts for women who sold fruits, aguardiente or textiles to the Paraguayan army. Finally, the article asks for the consequences of these economic activities on gender roles and the position of women within the family.