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Women build the welfare state : performing charity and creating rights in Argentina, 1880-1955 / Donna J. Guy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guy, Donna J.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in charitable work--Argentina.
- Women in charitable work.
- Women philanthropists--Argentina.
- Women philanthropists.
- Feminists--Argentina.
- Feminists.
- Welfare state--Argentina.
- Welfare state.
- Women--Political activity--Argentina.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- [s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Donna J. Guy is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of History at Ohio State University. She is the author of White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America and Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina and an editor of Feminisms and Internationalism and Sex and Sexuality in Latin America.
- Summary:
- An historical account of the significant roles of feminists and female philanthropists in the emergence of the Argentine welfare state between 1880 and 1955.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Female philanthropy and feminism before the welfare state: family law, and the politics of names
- Benevolence and female volunteerism
- Performing child welfare : philanthropy and feminism from the damas to Eva Perón
- Juvenile delinquency, patriarchy, and female philanthropy
- The depression and the rise of the welfare state
- At the crossroads of change : Peronism, the welfare state, and the decline of non-Peronist female authority.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022943
- 9781478090779
- 1478090774
- 9780822343301
- 0822343304
- 9781283022941
- 128302294X
- OCLC:
- 404091913
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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