Trajectories in Argentine children’s literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga

Children's author and publishing entrepreneur Constancio C. Vigil was a Uruguayan who spent most of his working life in Argentina. He was best known for his children's magazine Billiken (1919 to present). Vigil's contemporary and compatriot Horacio Quiroga also made the move across the River Plate and went on to have a transformative impact on Argentine literary culture, in part through his Jungle Tales for Children (1924). Both Quiroga and Vigil aspired to have their works for children accepted as school reading books, recognising the role of school authorities in the formation of the national canon. Vigil and Quiroga's trajectories of inclusion and exclusion, and their extraordinary contribution to the Argentine and Latin American cultural landscape in the first half of the twentieth century, provide a window onto the curation of an Argentine national children's literature at the same time as challenging the very nature of such a category

Religious Actors and Discourses in the Public Sphere: Controversies Around Sexual Education in Argentina

This chapter proposes an in-depth analysis of the complex connections between religion and politics in democratic Argentina by focusing on the actions of political and religious leaders with respect to the approval of legislation on sexual education in 2006. Based on a reconstruction of the parliamentary defeat and the tedious path towards the effective implementation of sexual education in the education system, I examine the active negotiation between politics and religion in the public sphere, as well as the intervention strategies and discursive foundations of the religious institutions—principally the Catholic Church—that frequently influence legislation and governmental policies. I analyze the interaction between political culture, ecclesiastical power, and citizens’ rights in order to rethink national public administration and the possible conditions for guaranteeing an inclusive democracy.Fil: Esquivel, Juan Cruz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin

"You can't have it all": patterns of gender and class segregation in paid domestic work in the city of Buenos Aires

This chapter focuses on the labor trajectories of a group of women who enter the labor market mainly through paid domestic work. Studying these trajectories will enable us to see how the characteristics of the ways that they enter the market considerably limit their occupational mobility. For this reason, the form of labor mobility observed among domestic workers is strictly horizontal. In cases when workers do find a way out of domestic employment, it is into other occupations with similar characteristics. Based on a qualitative study that we have been carrying out in Buenos Aires since 2009, we will examine these forms of mobility so as to account for the dynamics of inequality that limit the horizon of opportunities for women from popular sectors in the world of work.Fil: Gorban, Debora. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Instituto de Ciencias; ArgentinaFil: Tizziani, Ania. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Instituto de Ciencias; Argentin