La perspectiva de género en la versión norteamericana de la historia de las mujeres en América latina

Abstract

This article is a review of the a few important historical studies on Latin America from a gender perspective published in the U.S. in the last 10 years. It includes those studies which focus on the ways in which the concept of gender has been implemented historically in the colonial, independent and twentieth century in Latin America, particularly in the Mexican Revolution, underlining the complex power relationship between individual and the state, and specifically between individuals of different biological sexes, whose identity is constructed through the building of cultural differences based on their biological differences.