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"Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one of the three best-selling books in Argentina. Dona Petrona capitalized on and contributed to the growing appreciation for women's domestic roles as the Argentine economy expanded and fell into periodic crises. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including her own interviews with Dona Petrona's inner circle and with everyday women and men, Rebekah E. Pite provides a lively social history of twentieth-century Argentina, as exemplified through the fascinating story of Dona Petrona and the homemakers to whom she dedicated her career. Pite's narrative illuminates the important role of food--its consumption, preparation, and production--in daily life, class formation, and national identity. By connecting issues of gender, domestic work, and economic development, Pite brings into focus the critical importance of women's roles as consumers, cooks, and community builders"--

Abstract
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the image of a rural woman handing a gaucho on horseback a drink before he trotted away began to circulate with increasing frequency in the Río de la Plata region. The drink the woman passed the man was the local infusion yerba mate, and, in earlier illustrations, it had been served by another man. This gendered shift occurred alongside a dramatic expansion of common peoples' access to images via photographs and postcards. Tracing the social and visual history of the goodbye mate ritual from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth reveals the quotidian manner in which locals in this region constructed, consumed, and circulated overlapping visions of their nations. As the gaucho become a popular and contested national symbol in Argentina and Uruguay alike, the rural woman (then referred to as la china, but now largely unnamed) became a local one whose faithfulness to the gaucho and, by extension, the nation, was coveted by men across the sociopolitical divide. This article is, on the one hand, a microhistory of the goodbye mate ritual and, on the other, an argument about how centering visual sources and marginal figures, like the china, allows us to better understand the historical and hierarchical construction of national identities and icons.

As Dora Barrancos pointed out in her 2004 state-of-the-field essay, since the early twentieth century, a small number of Argentine scholars have dedicated themselves to writing histories about women. The 1980s witnessed a significant increase in female-focused scholarship across the world; and Argentina, especially after the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, was no exception. In Argentina, as elsewhere in Latin America, scholars from other social science disciplines were among the first to employ gender-based analysis. By the end of the decade, feminist scholars in Argentina founded the first interdisciplinary institutes of women's studies in national universities. And during the early 1990s, scholars at a number of these institutes began to publish interdisciplinary feminist journals including La Alijaba: Segunda Epóca, Mora, and Zona Franca. In 1991, the Universidad de Luján hosted the first academic meeting focused squarely on women's history. The following year, historians at the Universidad de Buenos Aires hosted the second iteration of this workshop, adding gender into the new title, "II Jornadas de Historia de las Mujeres y Estudios de Género." Ever since,. - a growing number of (primarily Argentine) historians have met at this annual conference to present new research on women and gender