Participant Info
- First Name
- Cecilia
- Last Name
- Tossounian
- Country
- Argentina
- State
- cecitoss@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Conicet / Universidad de San Andrés
- Website URL
- Keywords
- History of Modern Latin America, Global and Transnational History, Women's and Gender History, Imperialism, Material Culture, Emotions, Nationalisms.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I specialize in the history of modern Latin America and have published on the history of consumer culture, gender and nationalism. I am currently working on a new research project on beauty contests, anti imperialism and race in the XX century.
- Recent Publications
2025. “Young Ambassadors of the Fascist Empire: Voices of Italian Children abroad in the Magazine Il Tamburino”, Journal of Social History, forthcoming.
2025. “Políticas del cuerpo: gordura, género y consumo en Buenos Aires (1910-1940)”, Anuario del CEED, forthcoming.
2022. “Tango Dancing: Women, Style and Intimacy in Buenos Aires (1920-1940)” in James Nott y Klaus Nathaus (eds.), Worlds of Social Dancing: Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing, c. 1910-1940, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 18-40).
2021. “Forjando un cuerpo viril: cultura física, salud y fuerza en la entreguerra” in Pablo Scharagrodsky (ed.), Hombres en Movimiento. Deporte, cultura física y masculinidades en la Argentina, 1870-1950, (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, pp. 199-224).
2020. La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation and Popular Culture, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2020.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @cecitoss.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- Argentina
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Gender, Women
