Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in

"This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women's agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state."--Matthew C. Gutmann, author of "The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City"

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xv

I. State and Gender in Latin America

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century

3

(30)

Elizabeth Dore

Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America

33

(52)

Maxine Molyneux

II. Case Studies

Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750--1850

85

(23)

Eugenia Rodriguez S.

Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State

108

(19)

Maria Eugenia Chaves

Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810--1830

127

(20)

Rebecca Earle

Property, Households, and Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840--1900

147

(25)

Elizabeth Dore

Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina

172

(22)

Donna J. Guy

Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930--1940

194

(21)

Mary Kay Vaughan

Commemorating the Heroinas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia

215

(23)

Laura Gotkowitz

Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law

238

(24)

Ann Varley

Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile

262

(29)

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas

291

(31)

Maxine Molyneux

Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa

322

(24)

Jo Fisher

Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group

346

(23)

Fiona Macaulay

Contributors

369

(2)

Index

371

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Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America

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