La figura de la costurera en la literatura popular argentina de la primera mitad del siglo XX: un ejemplo de regulación femenina

Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century a series of short fictional stories circulated in Argentine popular culture that were intended to regulate the morals and behavior of young working-class women and that focused on a particular kind of woman: the seamstress. In this article we discuss five of those stories from a cultural history approach with a gender perspective in order to examine how this particular know-how, which Western culture typically associates with women, places them on the margins of respectability when it is carried out in the public sphere and for the market, thus positioning the women who practice it in the eye of social regulations.