Women and Diplomatic Life: An Overview with Methodological Directions and Proposals

BRUNO, PAULA (AUTORA DEL CAPÍTULO)

Culture as Soft Power. Bridging Cultural Relations, Intellectual Cooperation, and Cultural Diplomacy

De Gruyter

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2022; p. 43 - 64

This chapter has two primary objectives. First, I will offer a systematic reviewof the academic literature on the paths of women who circulated in variousdiplomatic circles throughout history. In particular, I will focus on publicationsfrom the last two decades that have endeavoured to renew the study ofdiplomatic history in several different fields, including cultural history, politicalhistory, women’s history, and (to a lesser extent) the branch of internationalrelations related to gender. In the hopes of contextualising a diversebody of work that has been produced in parallel disciplines that do not alwaysintersect, I have limited my focus to three broad geographic regions:Western Europe, English-speaking North America, and Latin America. Basedon my readings and reflections, I will offer a potential reading list for futurestudy on this topic. Secondly, I will draw on experiences from the research Ihave conducted in recent years to propose a series of profiles that can help usstudy the lives of Latin American women in the nineteenth century and theperiod leading up to the First World War. I will also offer a few methodologicalreflections for studies on these women.