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Gender and Welfare in Mexico:

The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State
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Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.


Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Gender, Race, and the Pan-American Child Congresses

2 Welfare Reform in Mexico: Stabilizing the Family

3 Single Mothers and the State

4 The Postwar Years: Disease Eradication, Sanitation, and Development

5 The Rise of Social Work in Mexico

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“The historiographical significance of the book cannot be overemphasized. We are finally moving from the traditional rescuing of individual heroic female figures to the understanding of gender formation processes as a key to the interplay of power between individuals and the state.”

—Carmen Ramos Escandón, Hispanic American Historical Review

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