Silvia Rodríguez Villamil (1939 - August 17, 2003) was an Uruguayan historian, feminist, writer, as well as a political and social activist.

Biography

Silvia Rodríguez Villamil was born in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, 1939. In 1968, she published through ''Ediciones de la Banda Oriental'', her book ''Las mentalidades dominantes en Montevideo (1850-1900) : La mentalidad criolla tradicional''. This work represented an important contribution to the study of the mentality and idiosyncrasy of Uruguay, which had begun to be explored by Carlos Real de Azúa in ''El patriciado uruguayo'' (1961) and was continued by the work of José Pedro Barrán and Benjamín Nahum. A second volume by the author dedicated to "The urban and Europeanized mentality" was included in a posthumous reissue by the same publisher in 2008."Las mentalidades dominantes en Montevideo (1850-1900) , Silvia Rodríguez Villamil , R-T , Autores". www.entrelibros.com.uy. (in Spanish) Around 1983, together with other feminists such as Graciela Sapriza, she founded the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Condición de la Mujer en el Uruguay (GRECMU) (Study Group on the Status of Women in Uruguay), which published several relevant books on this subject, such as ''El voto femenino en el Uruguay : conquista o concesión?'' (1984), ''Nosotras en la historia'' (1988), ''Mujeres militantes y conciencia de género'' (1990), and ''Situación y problemática de la mujer uruguaya actual'' (1991). Rodriguez died August 17, 2003.

Selected works

* ''Las mentalidades dominantes en Montevideo (1850-1900) : La mentalidad criolla tradicional'' (Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 1968) * ''La inmigración europea en el Uruguay'' (1982) * ''Mujer, Estado y política en el Uruguay del siglo XX'' (1984) * ''El voto femenino en el Uruguay : conquista o concesión?'' (1984) * ''Nosotras en la historia'' (1988) * ''Mujeres militantes y conciencia de género'' (1990) * ''Situación y problemática de la mujer uruguaya actual'' (1991) * ''La antesala del siglo XX (1890-1910)'' (en coautoría con Susana Antola. 2006) * ''Las mentalidades dominantes en Montevideo (1850-1900)'' (Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez Villamil, Silvia 1939 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Uruguayan historians Uruguayan women historians Uruguayan feminists 21st-century Uruguayan historians 20th-century Uruguayan women writers Writers from Montevideo