Description
Book SynopsisMothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated fromor unimportant tocentral developments in Latin American history since independence.
- Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin America in a readable narrative for undergraduate students
- Offers brief, primary-source document excerpts at the end of each chapter that instructors can use to stimulate class discussion
- Adheres to a focus on motherhood, which allows for a coherent narrative that touches upon important themes without falling into a list of facts textbook style
Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vi
Acknowledgments viii
Source Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction: Gender and Latin American History, or: Why Motherhood? 1
2 Motherhood in Transition: From Colonies to Independent Nations 24
3 Poor Women: Mothering the Majority in the Nineteenth Century 51
4 Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Nation in the Nineteenth Century 80
5 Motherhood at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, circa 1900–1950 102
6 Poor Mothers and the Contradictions of Modernity, circa 1900–1950 133
7 Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910–1990: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua 158
8 Maternalizing Politics, Politicizing Motherhood: Women and Politics, circa 1950–1990s 193
9 Bodies, Policies, and Globalization: Contraception and Abortion in Latin America 222
10 Motherhood Transformed? History, Gender, and the Shift into the Twenty-First Century 248
Bibliography 267
Subject Index 283
