En la ciudad de los hombres solos: el viaje a Buenos Aires de Rosita Forbes (1932)
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Belgrano Rawson, Milagros
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2019
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Sociocriticism ISSN 0985-5939 Vol. 29, Nº. 1-2, 2019, pags. 169-201
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In 1931, English writer Rosita Forbes travels to South America and visits, besides other countries, the Argentinian Republic. The account of this travel, Eight republics in search of a future, gathers her impressions on political, economical and social aspects of the visited countries. In this article, I will analyze her observations on the relations between men and women in the city of Buenos Aires: according to Forbes, Buenos Aires belongs to men. Whereas they seem to dominate public spaces, women only find protection from street harassment in the private sphere, she argues. I consider that her travelogue provides an original lens for the study of sexual difference in a period poorly represented in travel literature on Argentina.