Progressive Mothers, Better Babies - Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945

Informationen zum Autor By Okezi T. Otovo Klappentext This illuminating study explores the social and cultural history of Brazilian family health and welfare policies-particularly the effect of the reform-minded maternalist movement on impoverished women and children and on the uneven integration of Afro-Bra Zusammenfassung This illuminating study explores the social and cultural history of Brazilian family health and welfare policies—particularly the effect of the reform-minded maternalist movement on impoverished women and children and on the uneven integration of Afro-Bra Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Orthography and Currency Introduction Chapter 1. Persistence and Change: The "Mulata Velha" Chapter 2. Domestic Health Care: The Mãe Preta Chapter 3. Motherhood as Science: The Curiosa Chapter 4. Foundling Care and Family Welfare: The Mãe Desnaturada Chapter 5. Bahia’s Estado Novo: The Pai dos Pobres Conclusion A Suggestive Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Okezi T Otovo, Okezi T. Otovo
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781477309056
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0905-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology