Description |
xii, 296 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista |
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Viewpoints/puntos de vista.
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Contents |
Introduction: Gender and Latin American history, or: why motherhood? -- Motherhood in transition: from colonies to independent nations -- Poor women: mothering the majority in the nineteenth century -- Middle-class and elite mothers: feminism, femininity, and the nation in the nineteenth century -- Motherhood at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, circa 1900-1950 -- Poor mothers and the contradictions of modernity, circa 1900-1950 -- Mothers and revolution, circa 1910-1990: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua -- Maternalizing politics, politicizing motherhood: women and politics, circa 1950-1990s -- Bodies, policies, and globalization: contraception and abortion in Latin America -- Motherhood transformed? History, gender, and the shift into the twenty-first century. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Women -- Latin America -- History.
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Motherhood -- Latin America -- History.
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Sex role -- Latin America -- History.
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Feminism -- Latin America -- History.
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Latin America -- History -- 1830-
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Other Form: |
Online version: O'Connor, Erin, 1965- Mothers making Latin America Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014 9781118341117 (DLC) 2014003782 |
ISBN |
9781118271438 (cloth) |
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1118271432 (cloth) |
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9781118271445 (paperback) |
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1118271440 (paperback) |
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