Representations of the Sisters of Charity and of Secular Nursing in La Voz de Mexico, 1870-1908

After the fall of the Second Mexican Empire, the radical conservative party with its catholic pro-clivities, manifested its ideals and aspirations through the periodical publication La Voz de Mexico, leaving traces of its bisectional imagery within its pages. This article analyses the repre-sentations of the Sisters of Charity and of those who practiced secular nursing, exposing the gender paradigms which encouraged both esteem and discredit in regards to this practice, trans-piring between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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This article examines the representations of the Sisters of Charity and secular nurses in the Mexican conservative party's periodical publication, La Voz de Mexico, and explores the gender paradigms that influenced their perception and treatment between the 19th and 20th centuries.