The role of Catholic Women in assisting to the poor. A balance from the Marian Feminine Congress of Chile in 1918

This article studies the participation of upper-class Catholic women in social action. Based on proceedings of the Marian Feminine Congress of Chile held in 1918, this paper analyzes the assessment that participants made of their own work, specifically in connection to care and assistance to the poo...

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Autor principal: Olivares-Olivares, Valeria Alejandra
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Publicado: Investigaciones Socio-Históricas Regionales (ISHIR) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) 2022
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Sumario:This article studies the participation of upper-class Catholic women in social action. Based on proceedings of the Marian Feminine Congress of Chile held in 1918, this paper analyzes the assessment that participants made of their own work, specifically in connection to care and assistance to the poor. In this regard, it is proposed that the articulating axes of their practices are grouped along four lines: first, care of the sick; second, assistance to underprivileged children; third, concern for the working class women; fourth, the instruction of workers in their role as fathers and husbands. This analysis allows us to conclude that social action was the central sphere in which Catholic women forged their influency from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.