Adventurers, Foreign Women and Masculinity in the Colombian Wars of Independence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3945992
AutoresMatthew Brown (0000-0002-0937-9139)
Año2005
Volumen79
Número1
Páginas36-51
Fecha de publicación2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400198
OpenAlexW2161326521
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas16

This paper examines changing conceptions of honour and masculinity during the Colombian Wars of Independence in the early 19th century. It explores the position of the foreign women who accompanied British and Irish expeditions to join the war against Spanish rule, and shows how colonial, imperial and republican conceptions of masculinity were affected by the role that women played in these volunteer expeditions and in the wars in general. The paper considers women's experiences during war and peace, and examines their experiences in the light of changing conceptions of masculinity at home, in the British empire and in Hispanic America in the early nineteenth century. The social mobility of the Wars of Independence shifted the ground on which these concepts rested for all groups involved. The participation of foreign women alongside male adventurers was a further ingredient in this disorientating period

Adventure · Colonialism · Empire · Honour · Independence (probability theory) · Irish · Masculinity · Political science · Sociology · War of independence · Argentine historical studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Law