Mothers making Latin America : gender, households, and politics since 1825 / Erin E. O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Erin, 1965- author.

Series:

Viewpoints/puntos de vista

Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Latin America--History.

Women.

Feminism.

History.

Sex role.

Motherhood.

Latin America.

Motherhood--Latin America--History.

Sex role--Latin America--History.

Feminism--Latin America--History.

Latin America--History--1830-.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

The cult of motherhood has a lengthy and complex history in Latin American society. Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of innovative gender scholarship and primary source material to dispel the commonly held belief that women have been separated from - or unimportant to - central developments in Latin American history since independence. With scholarly precision, author Erin E. O'Connor also discards the popular notion that the only women worthy of study were those who rejected gender norms in their entirety. Instead, O'Connor explores how ideas about motherhood, and women's own interpretations of that role, were often central to processes of socio-political change in Latin America. Featuring a thought-provoking blend of original scholarship with an accessible narrative thread, Mothers Making Latin America helps to reshape our understanding of Latin American gender history. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Connor, Erin, 1965- Mothers making Latin America

ISBN:

9781118271438

1118271432

9781118271445

1118271440

OCLC:

759177366