Happily ever after? Socioeconomic profiles in divorce cases during the first half of the 20th century, Buenos Aires province, Argentina

• Autores: Valobra, Adriana; Queirolo, Graciela Amalia
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Apuntes, 49(90), 27-47. (2022); ISSN 2223-1757
• Materia: Ciencias sociales; Divorce; Socioeconomic profiles; Argentina
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Absolute divorce in Latin America has been studied, in particular, concerning those countries where its legal sanction was given early . However, not long ago, the inquiries about Argentina were rather exceptional. In general, they can be grouped into three lines: the analysis of political discourses and gender readings on the scope of the laws about marriage and the grounds for divorce; microhistory studies about the press and letters sent to the government that usually indicates that there was a divorce consensus among the population, although their statements override the possibilities of the sources and type of approach on them; and statistical studies that have made interesting contributions on the national scope, the geographic distribution and the difficulties that the series presents to reflect on other aspects. This work uses a series of data constructed from judicial sources to analyze the social profiles reconstructed in files that in 1955 entered as a divorce to the courts of the city of La Plata (province of Buenos Aires).
Fil: Valobra, Adriana. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.
Fil: Queirolo, Graciela Amalia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.