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Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 February 2015
... indigenous peoples into modern Mexicans who follow Western health, education, and family practices. Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico is an in-depth examination of the ways in which the neoliberal Mexican state attempts to control women's reproductive practices and intervene in child-rearing...
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The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 362–363.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Heidi Tinsman The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile . By Mooney Jadwiga E. Pieper . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 301 pp. Paper , $27.95...
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Emancipatory Narratives and Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830–1888
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 522–523.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and African-descendant women's experiences emerge throughout the book in order to confirm how incomplete freed status could be when considered through the lens of Black motherhood. In nineteenth-century Bahia, freedom suits and manumission activism were mobilized by freed and enslaved women to keep...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 65–99.
Published: 01 February 2023
... provided the framework for the Benedictine monks' gradual manumission strategies in the 1860s tied to motherhood, marriage, and reproduction. This article, in showing one of the earliest and most sustained attempts to successfully implement what was in effect a breeding program, is a call for more detailed...
View articletitled, “Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children”: Slavery, <span class="search-highlight">Motherhood</span>, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871
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Mothers Making Latin America: Gender, Households, and Politics since 1825
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 571–572.
Published: 01 August 2016
... O'Connor's contribution on motherhood in Latin America focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work is a successful attempt to historicize motherhood and to show how analysis through the lens of motherhood both complicates our understandings of historical motherhood and elucidates women's...
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Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 419–421.
Published: 01 May 2003
... Press 2003 Despite the near universality of some of its representations, motherhood is far from being a stable referent. If it is normatively associated with an ethic of care and inclinations to peace, the history of armed conflict brings to mind more combative and pitiless images of motherhood...
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Introduction: Researching and Rethinking the Labors of Love
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2011
...: Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983; Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003); Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung, The Second Shift (1989; New York: Penguin Books, 2003). The Association for Research on Motherhood, founded at York University in 1998, launched a journal the following year. Recent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 286–287.
Published: 01 May 1997
... and diversity have increased, now including not only grassroots women but black and indigenous women as well. The contributors themselves hold conflicting views on the transformative potential of “militant motherhood” (Alvarez’ term), which motivates many women to struggle for family survival. María del...
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Honor, Maternity, and the Disciplining of Women: Infanticide in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 August 1992
... crime against motherhood. According to Argentine law, infanticide was the killing, through either negligence or violence, of a child by its mother “in order to hide her dishonor.” 3 The penalty was imprisonment for three to six years, a considerably lighter sentence than those for other forms...
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Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 162–164.
Published: 01 February 2015
... was deeply gendered and that the discourse of motherhood was crucial and finally influenced the abolition debate as a whole, as well as subsequent discourse on the family and citizenship. The question of whether maternity was a characteristic all women who gave birth could claim or was restricted to those...
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Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 168–170.
Published: 01 February 2015
... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The role of the middle-class reformers and their efforts to open up political spaces for the consolidation of a new kind of citizenship in postrevolutionary Mexico are the main focuses of this book. By looking into the specific policies in relation to motherhood...
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Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 130–131.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., mobilization and discipline were the sine qua non of having a public voice in 1930s Mexico. Olcott explores the gendered practices of mobilization and discipline and brings to light the many ways motherhood, self-denial ( abnegación ), and other manifestations of the feminine ideal informed how women...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 645–676.
Published: 01 November 1997
... with Catholic culture and their perception of women’s importance to the maintenance of that culture. Motherhood was the defining characteristic of womanhood, and the positivists reinforced this even as they sought better control over the prerogatives of mothers. Women undoubtedly benefited from improved medical...
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Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to the History of Health and Medicine in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 503–527.
Published: 01 August 2011
... America. Childbearing, prostitution, and family planning are among the topics that have attracted lively interest. From early in their republican histories, Latin American societies cared deeply for the status of motherhood as a sign of female honor, as the means to produce new national subjects...
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Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 651–678.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the sociocultural norms that give those acts their meaning. Those norms connected maricas with core elements of womanhood, including motherhood. In reading archival sources about maricas, one might feel tempted to draw interpretative boundaries between performance and interiority or between parodic and authentic...
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“Agents of Change” in Maternal and Infant Care: Matronas , Parteras , and Public Health in Bolivia, 1950s–1970s
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 629–656.
Published: 01 November 2021
... motherhood as an excuse to police women and limit their participation in civic life, women themselves demanded political and reproductive rights based on their status as mothers. Pieper Mooney, Politics of Motherhood , 44–70; Lavrin, Women, Feminism, and Social Change , 53–124. Governments have also used...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (4): 529–553.
Published: 01 November 1992
... of instilling values of work, thrift, and initiative in future generations. Motherhood became a civic responsibility that only enlightened women could fulfill. After independence, republican officials continued to view the education of women as essential to solving the problems facing the new nation. Following...
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Coffee Planters, Workers and Wives: Class Conflict and Gender Relations on São Paulo Plantations
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 796–797.
Published: 01 November 1989
..., gender relations. The new wage relations caused severe strains in family relations, but the ideology of the family and of motherhood continues strong. Women are conscious of their family’s exploitation, but nevertheless blame their husbands for the extra burden which they as women and mothers carry...
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The Women of Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 505–506.
Published: 01 August 1987
... she sees as the Latin American variant of a Victorian ideal, appearing in Mexico for the first time in the midnineteenth century. While marianismo “transferred the religious spirit surrounding the worship of Mary to secular motherhood” (p. 267), the emphasis on the separate spheres of male...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 540–541.
Published: 01 August 1994
... of the Plaza de Mayo challenged military rule and redefined the role of motherhood as they organized first to demand information about their “disappeared” children, and then to condemn the military’s human rights abuses. What is striking about all these grassroots women’s organizations, and what unites...
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