‘Angels in the printing presses’. The Josefinas Typographers and the redefinition of gender roles roles (1900-1930)

Abstract

Within the framework of the redefinition of the ideological system of gender in the first three decades of the 20th century, this article in the first three decades of the twentieth century, this article analyses the work of female the work of female typographers in San José, Costa Rica, a predominantly urban and male-dominated profession. In In this sense, the incorporation of women into the urban labour force is studied, as well as the the urban labour force, as well as their social origins and family environment. family environment in order to establish some aspects of their aspects of their dynamics and social ascent, the redefinition of roles and gender relations in the roles and gender relations at the labour level for the period. period.