Mothers Making Latin America (eBook)

Erin E. O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Her publications include Gender, Indian, Nation: the Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 (2007), Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race, and Empire, Volume 1 (with L. Garofalo, 2011)and Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race, and Nation, Volume 2 (with L. Garofalo, 2011).

Series Editor's Preface vi

Acknowledgments viii

Source Acknowledgments xi

1 Introduction: Gender and Latin American History, or: Why
Motherhood? 1

2 Motherhood in Transition: From Colonies to Independent Nations
24

3 Poor Women: Mothering the Majority in the Nineteenth Century
51

4 Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and the
Nation in the Nineteenth Century 80

5 Motherhood at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, circa
1900-1950 102

6 Poor Mothers and the Contradictions of Modernity, circa
1900-1950 133

7 Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910-1990: Mexico, Cuba,
and Nicaragua 158

8 Maternalizing Politics, Politicizing Motherhood: Women and
Politics, circa 1950-1990s 193

9 Bodies, Policies, and Globalization: Contraception and
Abortion in Latin America 222

10 Motherhood Transformed? History, Gender, and the Shift into
the Twenty-First Century 248

Bibliography 267

Subject Index 283