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In praise of the woman who votes. The municipal female vote in Santa Fe, Argentina

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Abstract

The academic research that includes any reference to Santa Fe's municipal female suffrage is scarce and nominal. In this paper, I propose to outline the routes of women's municipal suffrage in the province of Santa Fe. The central exercise is the visibility in order to answer basic, essential questions: what, who, when, where, how, for what and why. As hypotheses, we propose that changing the scale and from a gender perspective will not only allow us to see different aspects (Fernández “La historia…” 19) and “write a more diverse, heterogeneous history, different from the Argentine nation” (Palermo “La historia…” 32), which relativizes the predominant “national fact”, including female suffrage’s histories.

Keywords:

municipal suffrage, women, Santa Fe, Argentina