O'Connor Mothers Making Latin America

Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-34112-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista

Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination ofgender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief thatwomen were separated from--or unimportant to--centraldevelopments in Latin American history sinceindependence.
* Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for LatinAmerica in a readable narrative for undergraduate students
* Offers brief, primary-source document excerpts at the end ofeach chapter that instructors can use to stimulate classdiscussion
* Adheres to a focus on motherhood, which allows for a coherentnarrative that touches upon important themes without falling into a"list of facts" textbook style

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, Erin E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface vi
Acknowledgments viii
Source Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction: Gender and Latin American History, or: WhyMotherhood? 1
2 Motherhood in Transition: From Colonies to Independent Nations24
3 Poor Women: Mothering the Majority in the Nineteenth Century51
4 Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and theNation in the Nineteenth Century 80
5 Motherhood at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, circa1900-1950 102
6 Poor Mothers and the Contradictions of Modernity, circa1900-1950 133
7 Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910-1990: Mexico, Cuba,and Nicaragua 158
8 Maternalizing Politics, Politicizing Motherhood: Women andPolitics, circa 1950-1990s 193
9 Bodies, Policies, and Globalization: Contraception andAbortion in Latin America 222
10 Motherhood Transformed? History, Gender, and the Shift intothe Twenty-First Century 248
Bibliography 267
Subject Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Erin E. O'Connor is Associate Professor of Historyat Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Herpublications include Gender, Indian, Nation: the Contradictionsof Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 (2007), Documenting LatinAmerica: Gender, Race, and Empire, Volume 1 (with L. Garofalo,2011)and Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race, andNation, Volume 2 (with L. Garofalo, 2011).