Hostos175th Anniversary Inaugural Lecture Dr April Mayes v2

Описание: March 19, 2014 / Inaugural Lecture: Dr. April Mayes, "Hostos (and the Woman Question) in Santo Domingo: A Consideration of Gender and Nation Building in Hostosian Thought and Practice."
-As the leadoff event for the 175th Anniversary Celebration of the birth of Eugenio María de Hostos, Hostos Community College is pleased to announce our inaugural lecture by Dr. April Mayes of Pomona College. Dr. Mayes, Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, Dean of Women at Pomona College, and author of the forthcoming book The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity (University Press of Florida, 2014), will deliver a lecture titled "Hostos (and the Woman Question) in Santo Domingo: A Consideration of Gender and Nation Building in Hostosian Thought and Practice." The presentation, in recognition of Women's History Month, describes Hostos's influence on women's education and on the development of a generation of normalistas who applied Hostosian pedagogy in their female-run schools and Hostosian thought in their social reform activism. The lecture will then detail how Hostosian thought, while not necessarily feminist, influenced Dominican feminism in its early, inchoate years. Finally, Dr. Mayes explores why Hostos addressed the "woman question" in the first place and what significance women had in his thinking about civil society, the state, and the nation.