Abstract

NORANDO, Verónica. The City is Burning this Summer: Buenos Aires, January 1919. Sexual Roles and Demands for the Rights of a Gendered Working Class. Secuencia [online]. 2019, n.105, e1527.  Epub Aug 26, 2019. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i105.1527.

I seek to contribute to the examination on the “Tragic Week” of 1919 from social history and gender studies. I focus on the role of community relations and sociability that were the basis of that workers’ resistance movement and on the gender roles that emerged during the conflict. Through the study, I conclude that the fundamental causes of the great resistance reached that week must be sought in the culture of resistance developed over the years, especially from the strike process of 1910 onwards, in which gender relations and the sociability of women played a fundamental role. The originality of this work is that the “Tragic Week” has never been investigated from this perspective, particularly from gender studies, and that it provides new findings and above all makes the role of women in this historical event visible.

Keywords : “Tragic Week”; gender roles; sociability; community; resistance.