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

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

List of contents

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
 

About the author

Okezi T. Otovo is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Okezi T Otovo, Okezi T. Otovo
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781477308837
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0883-7
• 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; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous