ISBN:
1118271440
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (3632 KB, 312 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
CourseSmart v.6
Parallel Title:
Print version Mothers Making Latin America : Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Mothers Making Latin Americautilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from—or unimportant to—central developments in Latin American history since independence.Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin America in a readable narrative for undergraduate studentsOffers brief, primary-source document excerpts at the end of each chapter that instructors can use to stimulate class discussionAdheres 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 Erin E. O’Connoris Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Her publications include Gender, Indian, Nation: the Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925(2007), Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race, and Empire, Volume 1 (with L. Garofalo, 2011)andDocumenting Latin America:Gender, Race, and Nation, Volume 2 (with L. Garofalo, 2011).
Description / Table of 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?; Gender and Power in the Colonial Period
Description / Table of Contents:
For Better or Worse? Gender, Law, and Nation in the Nineteenth CenturyClass 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
Description / Table of Contents:
4: Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Nation in the Nineteenth CenturyLiterary 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Doctors, Governments, and MotherhoodThe 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; 7: Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910-1990: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua
Description / Table of Contents:
Tales of Gender and RevolutionModernizing 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; Motherhood and the revolutionary war; Gender, motherhood, and Sandinista rule
Description / Table of Contents:
Mothers and Revolution: An "Unhappy Marriage"?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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