| Description |
viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Engendering Latin America ; v. 5
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Engendering Latin America ; v. 5.
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| Note |
"Bison Books"--Spine. |
| Contents |
Future direction in Latin American gender history -- Medical imperialism gone awry: the campaign against legalized prostitution in Latin America -- The pan-American child congresses, 1916 to 1942: Pan-Americanism, child reform, and the welfare state in Latin American -- The politics of Pan-American cooperation: maternalist feminism and the child rights movement, 1913-1960 -- "White slavery," citizenship, and nationality in Argentina -- Women, peonage, and industrialization: Argentina, 1810-1914 -- Lower-class families, women, and the law in nineteenth-century Argentina -- Public health, gender, and private morality: pain labor and the formation of the body politic in Buenos Aires -- Emilio and Gabriela Coni: reformers, public health, and working women -- White slavery, public health, and the socialist position on legalized prostitution in Argentina, 1913-1936 -- Parents before the tribunals: the legal construction of patriarchy in Argentina -- Mothers alive and dead: multiple concepts of mothering in Buenos Aires. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Latin America. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Argentina -- Social conditions.
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Argentina. |
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Sex role -- Latin America.
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Sex role. |
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Sex role -- Argentina.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
080327095X paperback alkaline paper |
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