My first journal article, entitled "Gendered Invisibility, Respectable Cleanliness: The Impact of the Washing Machine on Daily Living in Post-1950 Santiago, Chile" explores not only how the washing machine radically altered daily patterns of living, but also how these changes indicate how links between cleanliness, gender, respectable, and class underscore Chilean concepts of modernity and progress. Please click HERE for a PDF of the article appearing in The Journal of Women's History.
My conference paper, entitled "The Discourse of Gendered Citizenship and Cleanly Comfort: Domestic Appliance Advertisements in Peron's Argentina" explores how print advertisements emphasized the necessity of clean, comfortable, and modern homes for the entire population. These images expressed a gendered construction of social citizenship that, in part, defined national belonging through the purchase and use of domestic appliances. Please click HERE for my conference paper on advertising during the first Peronist Regime.
