Peruvian Women in the Early Years of the Republic, According to Flora Tristan in Her Book Peregrinations of a Pariah

Abstract

This article is based on the Peruvian women that Flora Tristan met during her trip to Peru between 1832 and 1833. They have remained over time in her book Peregrinations of a Pariah. Through Joa-quina, Manuela, Carmen, Francisca, the rabonas, the limeñas and the others, a broad panorama of diverse environments of inequality and oppression is outlined. In this scenario, society is organized by and for a subject who is the upper-class white man, a social imaginary whose fragments persist to the present day.