Paraguay: Imágenes (monumentos y billetes) de mujer y nación en el Gran Asunción (original) (raw)

2021, Suplemento Antropológico

The representation, through monuments and banknotes, of women linked to national memory during the stronismo (1954-1989) is studied. Fewer than men, among the findings, (monument) Las Residentas, woman companion of the man at war, emerges as dominant, as well as Mme. Elisa Alicia Lynch (bust) and Mcal. Francisco Solano López. Next, as omnipresent because it is located on the front of a banknote, the “Paraguayan woman” appears. She is a peasant woman looking for water and wearing a Catholic rosary; that is, traditional role and religiosity within a bucolic past. But on the reverse side of the bill is the Hotel Guaraní, an icon-building of “progress”. So, the woman looks at or is in the past and the reverse is modernization and future. The third finding is the absence of indigenous woman. This historical-structural exclusion can already be described as voluntary forgetting with its inferences. Finally, women from the popular sector such as the burrerita (seller) of Lambaré, the peasant (banknote) and the residenta –with the majority popular component–are generic compared to elite women with proper names such as Isabel, la Católica and Mme. Elisa Alicia Lynch.

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