Abstract

VIGNOLI, Marcela. Cecilia Grierson y las damas de la Beneficencia oficial en los orígenes del Consejo Nacional de Mujeres de Argentina (1887-1906). Bol. Inst. Hist. Argent. Am. Dr. Emilio Ravignani [online]. 2021, n.55, pp.1-26. ISSN 0524-9767.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34096/bol.rav.n55.10348.

After participating in the II meeting of the International Council of Women, celebrated in London in 1899, doctor Cecilia Grierson completed the creation of the Argentine Council, in alliance with women of public trajectory linked to the Buenos Aires’s Benefit Society, During the first decade of the twentieth century, a hundred of women’s associations of various kinds – with a strong preponderance of philanthropic, charitable and religious– entered to this council. Extant literature has shown that this alliance was broken in 1910, precipitating the leave of graduated women. However, the consensus reached by such diverse groups in their origins is less known. Considering both class and professionals interests at stake, this research asks about the role played by Cecilia Grierson in the origins of that Council. It also investigates the previous contacts with different groups of women and the international links that allowed her to establish this organization. Then, we will explore the first socio-economic concerns in legislative matters that they developed, such as the maternity protection project and the attempt to incorporate the domestic economy into the Association’s and the Argentine State’s agendas.

Keywords : Cecilia Grierson; Graduated Women; Beneficence; Feminism; Domestic Economics.

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