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The research is funded by the AHRB research project «Gendering Latin American Independence», held at the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester. Shorter versions of this article were delivered in the conference, «Beyond the Nation: New Directions in the Study of 19th-Century Latin America», ILAS, University of London, June 2003, and at the departmental seminar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Leeds, February 2003. I am most grateful for the many useful comments and suggestions received on these occasions. I would also like to thank María Rosa Lojo for her assistance.