| Description |
1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser. ; v.6 |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction: Gender and Latin American History, or: Why Motherhood? -- Two Tales of Women and Politics -- Gender as a Category for Historical Analysis -- Relationships, Influences, and Terms -- What's Feminism Got to Do With It? -- Motherhood and the Course of Latin American History -- 2: Motherhood in Transition: From Colonies to Independent Nations -- Why Is Manuela Sáenz Problematic as a "Founding Mother" from Independence? |
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Gender and Power in the Colonial Period -- For Better or Worse? Gender, Law, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century -- Class and Race in Nineteenth-Century Gender Laws and Discourses -- Continuities, Changes, and Consequences -- 3: Poor Women: Mothering the Majority in the Nineteenth Century -- Varieties of Poor Mothers -- Gender, Communities, and Contexts -- Living as a peasant or hacienda worker -- Gender and slavery on Brazilian plantations -- Urban life and gender relations -- Mothering One's Own Children -- Mothering the Children of Others -- Elite Stereotypes, Subaltern Realities |
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4: Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Nation in the Nineteenth Century -- Literary Women in Lima -- Motherhood at the Crossroads of Feminism and Femininity -- Education: The Linchpin of Social Motherhood -- Motherhood and "Appropriate" Work -- Mothering Society: Middle-Class Women and Social Reproduction -- Who's Minding the Children? -- 5: Motherhood at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, circa 1900-1950 -- The Peculiar Case of Gabriela Mistral -- Dangerous "Modern Women" and the Need for "Traditional Mothers" -- Mothers and the Nation: Eugenics in Latin America |
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Doctors, Governments, and Motherhood -- The Question of Motherhood, Women, and Work -- Feminisms and Motherhood in the Early to Mid Twentieth Century -- Moving Forward While Staying Put? -- 6: Poor Mothers and the Contradictions of Modernity, circa 1900-1950 -- Activism and Motherhood: Doña María Roldán in Argentina -- Juggling Work and Motherhood -- Single Mothers Facing Modern Challenges -- State Intervention in Mothering: Conflicts and Benefits -- Aberrant Motherhood?: Chola Market Women -- Poor Mothers and the Limits of Modernity |
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7: Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910-1990: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua -- Tales of Gender and Revolution -- Modernizing Patriarchy in the Mexican Revolution -- The revolutionary conflict years -- Motherhood, laws, and revolutionary state building in Mexico -- Motherhood and the revolutionary nation in Mexico -- Gender in Cuba: A "Revolution within the Revolution"? -- Gender and the Cuban revolutionary conflict -- Cuban laws: revolutionizing work and home? -- Motherhood in practice: the limits of Cuban policies -- Nicaragua: Sandino's Daughters, Revolutionary Mothers |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Motherhood and the revolutionary war |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118341117 |
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1118341112 |
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