%0 Journal Article %T Educadoras, lectoras y socias: La irrupci¨®n de las mujeres en un espacio de sociabilidad masculino. La Sociedad Sarmiento de Tucum¨¢n (Argentina) entre 1882 y 1902 %A Vignoli %A Marcela %J Secuencia %D 2011 %I Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jos¨¦ Mar¨ªa Luis Mora %X in 1882, a sphere of sociability was created in san miguel de tucum¨¢n that brought together students, graduates and teachers from two educational institutes established in the province during the second half of the 19th century within the framework of the emergence of the nascent central state, the teachers' college and the national college. known as the sarmiento society, it constituted a literary sphere that enabled its members to achieve a sort of continuity in their studies in the absence of a university. the society embarked on various major endeavors, including the creation of a library and the edition of two periodic publications, el porvenir and el tucum¨¢n literario. these projects shaped an experience of male sociability, with a strong liberal imprint, that developed in constant tensi¨®n with the project of including the latest arrivals in the world of education, literature and reading, women. the central concern of the article is to examine the ways through which women were incorporated into this space ancl took up the challenge of beginning to express themselves in their own way. %K sociability %K culture %K women %K education. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0186-03482011000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en