Abstract
ABSTRACT Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century individuals and organized movements resorted to petitioning in Argentina to channel their demands, express their discontent, or seek solutions for specific problems. Petitioning, particularly when it had a collective dimension, opened the door to a range of practices including meetings, demonstrations, and the circulation of petitions beyond the local level. A wide range of organizations (i.e. charities, workers unions, liberal and socialist clubs, neighbours’ associations, feminist centres, Catholic groups) made frequent use of this practice to influence parliamentary procedures and debates. Furthermore, the right to petition (enshrined in the 1853 National Constitution) enabled those who were not enfranchised (such as women and foreigners) political agency and a participation in national politics. This article explores the involvement of women in parliamentary politics by studying a number of petitions submitted to Congress between the 1880s and the 1910s. It focuses primarily on collective petitioning paying particular attention to the way that public petitions become the centre of organized campaigns (local or national) and intertwined with parliamentary lobbying.
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