Mothers Making Latin America

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 viiiSource Acknowledgments xi1 Introduction: Gender and Latin American History, or: Why Motherhood? 12 Motherhood in Transition: From Colonies to Independent Nations 243 Poor Women: Mothering the Majority in the Nineteenth Century 514 Middle-Class and Elite Mothers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Nation in the Nineteenth Century 805 Motherhood at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity, circa 1900–1950 1026 Poor Mothers and the Contradictions of Modernity, circa 1900–1950 1337 Mothers and Revolution, circa 1910–1990: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua 1588 Maternalizing Politics, Politicizing Motherhood: Women and Politics, circa 1950–1990s 1939 Bodies, Policies, and Globalization: Contraception and Abortion in Latin America 22210 Motherhood Transformed? History, Gender, and the Shift into the Twenty-First Century 248Bibliography 267Subject Index 283