Mothers Making Latin America : Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Motherhood and the revolutionary war -- Gender, motherhood, and Sandinista rule -- Mothers and Revolution: An "Unhappy Marriage"? -- 8: Maternalizing Politics, Politicizing Motherhood: Women and Politics, circa 1950-1990s -- Women and Politics in the Late Twentieth Century: To Be or Not to Be (a Mother)? -- Mothering the Nation: From Evita Perón to Violeta Chamorro -- Evita and Peronism -- Doña Violeta and the Nicaraguan family -- Poor Mothers, Identity Politics, and Political Activism -- Mothers and Military Governments -- The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina -- CoMadres in El Salvador -- Conservative women and the military in Chile -- Women, Motherhood, and Politics in the Shift to the Twenty-First Century -- 9: Bodies, Policies, and Globalization: Contraception and Abortion in Latin America -- Gabriela's Story.

Historical and Technical Foundations for Reproductive Politics in Latin America -- A Problem of Population? -- Population and Reproduction as International and Class Conflicts -- Latin America and the Development of the Pill -- Abortion in Latin America: The "Clandestine Epidemic"? -- Latin American Reproduction: Global Considerations -- 10: Motherhood Motherhood Transformed?: History, Gender, and the Shift into the Twenty-First Century -- Brazil, Beauty, and the Rejection of Motherhood? -- Returning to the Questions of Gender and History -- Considering Fertility -- LGBT Rights and the Family -- Women, Work, and Motherhood -- Gender and Politics -- The Question of Empowerment -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.

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