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First Name
Maria Elvira
Last Name
Alvarez Gimenez
Country
France
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CY Cergy Paris University
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https://www.cyu.fr/annuaire-enseignants-chercheurs/mme-maria-elvira-alvarez-gimenez
Keywords
women's history, Bolivia, Latin America, feminism, women's citizenship, women's access to political and public spheres, women's politicization, XXth century, women's transnational history
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About Me

PhD in History, Associate Professor of Latin American History at CY Cergy Paris Université and researcher at the AGORA Laboratory (EA7392).

My research focuses on the history of women in Bolivia and Latin America from a transnational perspective (20th-20th centuries). I am particularly interested in the history of women’s access to citizenship and to the public and political spheres. My research themes focus in particular on women’s mobilization (through feminist, labor and trade union movements, Catholic and Protestant women’s associations…) and on women’s politicization, the role they play in political parties and bodies.

In 2017, I published a book entitled Mouvement féministe et droit de vote en Bolivie (1920-1952) (Teseo Press, Buenos Aires). I also published several articles on: the transnational feminist movement on the American continent in the 1930s; the impact of the Chaco War (1932-1935) on the lives of urban women in Bolivia; relations between women and feminists in Argentina and Bolivia during the Chaco War; and the emergence and development of the feminist movement in Bolivia in the first half of the 20th century.

Part of my academic training took place at American universities: Columbia University in New York (exchange student, 2010); Duke University (visiting scholar, 2014).

My PhD dissertation, defended in December 2018 at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, entitled “Women in the public sphere in Bolivia from the end of the Chaco War to the National Revolution (1935-1952)” is being revised for publication.

Recent Publications

Books :

  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, Mouvement féministe et droit de vote en Bolivie (1920-1952), Teseo Press, Buenos Aires, 2017.

Articles :

Peer-reviewed journals :

  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “Feminist movement and suffrage : How Women Obtained the Right to vote in Bolivia (1920-1952)”, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 30 (2), dossier : “Revisiting the “Second (Short) Wave” of Democratisation in Latin America, 1943-1962″ coordonné par Nicolás Prados, Emilie Curryova, Oliver Fletcher (Oxford University) et Andrés M. Guiot-Issac (London School of Economics), July 2024, p. 163-173.https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BAWQH5DKDYETI6ZWMVI8/full?target=10.1080/14701847.2024.2374141
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, «Pacifismo y vínculos transnacionales entre feministas en el continente americano en los años 1930: encontrar una solución a la guerra del Chaco», Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire. Les Cahiers ALHIM, 47, June 2024.http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/12883
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “Une ville blanche, moderne et virile” : politiques d’exclusion des espaces publics des femmes travailleuses urbaines, Bolivie, décennies 1930-1940″, Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos, Questions du temps présent, dossier : “Mobilisations collectives dans les Amériques : la place du subalterne” coordonné par Baptiste Lavat (Université Montpellier 3) et Guillaume Marche (Université Paris-Est Créteil), January 2024.http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/95121
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “La guerre du Chaco (1932-1935) et ses suites dans la vie des femmes urbaines de Bolivie”, Atlante : Revue d’études romanes, dossier “Sorties de guerres et après-guerres dans les Amériques Latines (XIXe – XXe siècles). Jalons pour une histoire”, n°14, October 2021, p. 70-91. https://journals.openedition.org/atlante/715
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, « The transnational feminist movement in the Americas in the 1930’s », Ciencia Nueva. Revista de Historia y Política, dossier « Global Perspectives of Latin American History », Italie-Colombie), n°1, vol 3, January-June 2019, Pereira-Colombia, p. 113-133.
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, « El impacto de la Guerra del Chaco en la vida de las mujeres urbanas : acceso al espacio público y redefiniciones de género », Anuario, Estudios Bolivianos, Archivísticos y Bibliográficos del Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, n°23, (Vol. I), July 2017, p. 265-290.
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “Une voyageuse d’avant-garde aux Amériques : Emilia Serrano, Baronesa de Wilson, et son livre América y sus mujeres (1890)”, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Colloques, December 2013.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/66115
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “Movimiento feminista y derecho al voto en Bolivia (1920-1952)”, Revista Fuentes (Revista de la Biblioteca y Archivo Históricos de la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional), vol. 5, n°15, August 2011, La Paz, Bolivia, p. 5-15.

Journals:

  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, “‘A Cada Noche Sigue un Alba’ de Cecilia Quiroga (1986, 49′). Un eslabón en la reconstrucción de la memoria y de la cultura política del movimiento anarquista en Bolivia”, ImagenDocs, August 2022, La Paz, Bolivia.
  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, « Movimiento feminista y derecho al voto en Bolivia (1920-1952). Nuevos Aportes », Revista sobre democracia y généro (Journal of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia), n° 2, January 2021, La Paz, Bolivia, pp. 109-131

Book chapters:

  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, « Argentina y Bolivia : relaciones entre mujeres y feministas durante la guerra del Chaco », dans CAVALIERI Paulo (dir.), La Argentina vista por sus vecinos, Editorial Torres de Hércules, Buenos Aires, 2018, pp. 221-261.

Book reviews :

  • ALVAREZ GIMENEZ Maria Elvira, on the book by ERASO Yolanda, Representing Argentinian Mothers: Medicine, Ideas and Culture in the Modern Era, 1900-1946, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2013, XIII + 293 p., in Histoire, Sciences sociales, 74e année, n°1, janvier-mars 2019, Édition de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Cambridge University Press, p. 257-260.
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Country Focus
Bolivia
Expertise by Geography
Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Politics