Womanhood and race in interwar Puerto Rico : labile bodies, colonial disparities / Gladys M. Jimaenez-Muanoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jimaenez-Muanoz, Gladys M., author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Women.

Puerto Rico--Race relations--History--20th century.

Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2026]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Labile Bodies and Historiography

2. Poverty, Scandalous Behavior, Women's Rights, and Liminal 'Womanhood': The Racialized Embodiments of Modernity's Chaotic Underside

3. Antonia Saaez Torres and the Cultural Uplift of the Laboring Poor: A Life in Teaching and Defending the Spanish Language

4. "Our [Woman] in Havana": Muna Lee de Muanoz Speaking for Puerto Rican Womanhood at the 1928 Sixth Pan American Conference in Cuba

5. The Disparities of Nacionalista Womanhood: Dominga de la Cruz Becerril and Trina Padilla de Sanz

6. Carmen Maraia Colaon Pellot and Clara Lair: The Gendered Racialization of the 1930s Literary Debate on the National Question

7. Pura Belprae at the New York Public Library During the Harlem Renaissance

8. Conclusion: Encountering Colonial Disparities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 19, 2026).

ISBN:

9783031872983

3031872983

Publisher Number:

90103820188

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.