Visibility of women's participation in Dominican history
SANTO DOMINGO.- In order to develop the knowledge of the history of feminism in the country and encourage the use of the resources available in the General Archive of the Nation (AGN) for its study, the sociologist Ginetta EB Candelario gave the workshop course “One hundred years of Dominican feminisms: an introduction to the history and resources for its study”, at the Center for Gender Studies of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG - INTEC).
The training was sponsored by the Fulbright Program and the Embassy of the United States in Santo Domingo, and had among its participants educators, lawyers and journalists, who participated in two academic days. The first dealt with the history of thought, activism and the Dominican feminist social movement from the 1865 to the 1965, and then conducted a practice as an introduction to historical research in the archives of the AGN.
Among the results presented by the participants are an analysis of the treatment of the image of black women in the history or the presence of Anacaona, among others.
Candelario is a Professor of Sociology at Smith College, Massachusetts, United States, and a Fullbright Scholar. His research interests include Dominican communities and identity formations, race and ethnicity of the Americas, culture of beauty, or Latino communities and identity formations, museum studies, feminisms, among others.
In addition, she is one of the authors of the book "One hundred years of Dominican feminisms: a collection of key documents and writings on the formation and evolution of feminist thought and movement in the Dominican Republic, 1865-1965", collected together with the doctors April J. Mayes (Pomona College) and Elizabeth S. Manley (Xavier University).
The book, recently published by the AGN, is a two-volume project with more than 1,600 pages, which present primary sources archived in the Dominican Republic, the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
