Incapaz de soportar ya esta vida. Suicidio femenino en Chile. 1884-1948
This paper tries to explore the motivations characterizing the experience and social practice of Chilean woman’s suicides, through the detailed analysis of a set of judicial investigations involving successful and failed self-killings between 1884 and 1948. In doing so, and considering the specific...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2006-11-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/2850 |
| Summary: | This paper tries to explore the motivations characterizing the experience and social practice of Chilean woman’s suicides, through the detailed analysis of a set of judicial investigations involving successful and failed self-killings between 1884 and 1948. In doing so, and considering the specific nature of the sources, I propose a particular heuristic device like a gender approach, which allows us to understand the relation between suicide and woman’s identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1626-0252 |