Macho Men and Modern Women : Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Macho Men and Modern Women -- 1. The State of Research on Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigration -- 2. Research in American Family History -- 3. Social Experts and History of Science -- 4. Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- 5. Structure of this Volume -- 1 Americanization and the "Cultural Deficiency Paradigm" (1920s-1930s) -- 1.1 "Go after the Women": Mexican-origin Mothers in Americanization Programs -- 1.2 "Appeal to his manhood": Negotiating Gender Norms and Practices in Social Workers' Complaint Files -- 2. The Eugenics Movement and the Biological Essentialist Paradigm (1920s-1930s) -- 2.1 "Is he a real man?": Hegemonic Ideals of Fatherhood -- 2.2 "The Evils of Unregulated Birth": Eugenic Thinking, Family Size and Birth Control -- 3. The Modernization Paradigm and the Isolated Nuclear Family (1940s-1950s) -- 3.1 "…we must begin with the BOY": Masculine Role Models, Modernization and Measures against Juvenile Delinquency -- 3.2 Rural Motherhood between Isolation and Agency as Midwives and Healers -- 4. From Modernization Theory to a Psychologization Paradigm (1950s-1960s) -- 4.1 Familia, Machismo, Compadrazgo? Debates on Democratic Family Structures in the Cold War Context -- 4.2 The Culture of Poverty and "multi-problem families" in Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society -- 5. The Emerging Chicano Movement and the New Ethnic Paradigm (1960s-1970s) -- 5.1 Machismo: Representations of Mexican American Masculinity between Social Experts and the Chicano Movement -- 5.2 Chicana Feminists: "Separating Myth from Reality" and "Constructing Reality" -- Conclusion and Outlook: Family: A Project for the 1980s -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Sources -- 2. Secondary Sources -- 3. Abbreviations -- 4. Glossary of Mexican American Terminology -- Index of Persons -- Subject Index.

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