Urbanas y modernas
Compilation of journalistic chronicles by Alfonsina Storni
In Spanish
Barlin Libros

Urbanas y modernas (Urban and Modern) compiles some of the most celebrated journalist chronicles published by Alfonsina Storni between 1919 and 1921. In them, the Argentine writer reflects, with irony and wit, on the condition of women, transcending the temporal and geographical contexts that sheltered them.

These articles correspond to a lesser-known first phase of the author's work, where, as a keen observer, she investigates the—always fallacious—representations of the feminine and the masculine from a perspective of sensitivity and transgression. She directs her attack against the conventions, customs, and habits that shape the hypocrisy of a diminished and diminished reality for the condition of women.

"Perfumed Feminism," "Is There a Feminine Problem?", "Working Women," "Who Is the Enemy of Divorce?" or "We... and the skin" are just some of the texts included in this compilation, in which the fascinating and daring writer gave a good example of her mordant and clinical gaze, radically ahead of her time and form.

Prologue by Berta Garcia Faet.

Coordinated by Mariela Mendez, Graciela Queirolo and Alicia Salomone.