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Regina A. Root
During and following the wars for independence, many Latin American women used fashion writing and accessories to assert their presences in what seemed an expanding public sphere. Focusing on contemporary feminist analysis and archival documents from the River Plate region of the early part of the nineteenth century, Regina Root uncovers the audacious role played by many women who were “dressed to kill. “ Her use of the term allows for a reading of the woman warrior tradition and of the contradictory role of political vanity and domestic heroism assigned to most women of the period. In her analysis, she reveals the postures assumed by many fashionable women who questioned the discriminatory designation of beautiful roles during the dismantling of the colonial power structure. Assuming war-like gestures in their writing and in their choice of fashion accessories, many struggled against the marginalization of women from political life in the newly independent societies of the Southern Cone.
