Cecilia Tossounian

Biographic Data

ID1104465
NAMECecilia Tossounian
GIVEN NAMESCecilia
FAMILY NAMETossounian
SIGNATURETOSSOUNIAN C
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Young Ambassadors of the Fascist Empire

    Open AccessCecilia TossounianARTICLEJournal of Social History2026

    In the 1930s, Italian children residing abroad had access to a fascist magazine specifically tailored for them, Il Tamburino. Its existence demonstrates that the regime considered these children to be potentially significant actors, and particularly so when it came to the expansion of Fascism beyond the Italian peninsula. Despite the growing interest in the history of fascist imperialism, the ways in which children experienced and connected with …

  • Modernity at the Movies

    Open AccessCecilia TossounianARTICLEJournal of Social History2024

    Journal Article Modernity at the Movies: Cinema-Going in Buenos Aires and Santiago 1915-1945. Camila Gatica Mizala Get access Modernity at the Movies: Cinema-Going in Buenos Aires and Santiago 1915-1945 Camila Gatica Mizala (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. 251 pp. $60.00). Cecilia Tossounian Cecilia Tossounian Conicet/Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…

  • Milonguitas

    Open AccessCecilia TossounianARTICLEEIAL - Estudios Interdisciplinarios…2016

    This paper examines gender representations conveyed in tango, showingthat its lyrics targeted consumption desire as one of the main causes for thereprehensible behavior of milonguitas (cabaret women). While the literaturehas emphasized the criticism that tango lyrics made of the changing sexualmores and the social ascendancy phenomenon that characterized BuenosAires of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the paper sheds light on the less exploredfantasies of …

  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Open AccessCecilia TossounianARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2014References: 1

  • Women's Associations and the Emergence of a Social State

    Open AccessCecilia TossounianARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2013References: 8

    This paper examines the women's association movement in Buenos Aires between 1920 and 1940, and its connection with the emergence of a social state. Subsidised by the state, associations led by upper-class women provided a significant number of social assistance services to mothers, working women and children, and had a notable impact on the design of social policy. While historiography concurs that by 1930 the significance of this charitably ori…

  • Images of Virtuous Women

    Open AccessMaria Fernanda Lorenzo, Ana Lia Rey et al.ARTICLEGender & History2005References: 2