Chantal Berthet's List: Tesis

Zoila Aurora Cáceres also used the language of evolutionary progress in her  essay published in 1896: "There is no reason to despair, civilizing progress  will arrive in South America, reaching the weak being who still sighs under her  unjust fate; and we will have the same rights as our colleagues in the North,  because the current of progress flows without stopping in the river of  enlightenment." ²⁵  Cáceres was typical of  those who felt that women in the United States enjoyed more rights than women in  Argentina, that Argentines should not accept being behind North Americans in  matters of women's rights, and that evolutionary progress could not fail to  redress this inequality. The language of these writers drew on the typical  imagery of nineteenth-century evolutionary progress: rivers, currents, flows,  and inevitability. It was an optimistic, future-oriented rhetoric that assuaged  feelings of living in a retrograde society because "inevitably" women's lives  would be improved by progress.

25. Zoila Aurora Cáceres ["Eva Angelina"], "La  emancipación de la mujer," El Búcaro Americano, 1 June 1896, 127–30,  quotation on 130.