Invisibili ma presenti: le domestiche in Argentina fra storia e immaginario (secoli xix-xxi)

Abstract

Official sources have long ignored domestic employment, while the arts have represented maids and recorded their ambitions for social advancement, their sociability between migrants and chinitas, and their keeping the habits of the families where they worked, with a critical gaze that, from the limes of their limited spaces penetrates the whole home. This artistic production, analysed here, constitutes an important contribution to the history of domestic employment and the relations among ethnicity, gender and social class in Argentine daily life from the 19th to the 21st century.