Mothering Mexico: The Historiography of Mothers and Motherhood in 20th-Century Mexico
This essay explores how both scholars have understood the category of motherhood in 20th-century Mexican history. From the self-sacrificing, long-suffering icon of ‘traditional’ motherhood to the ‘modern’ mother who used up-to-date child-rearing techniques, mothers and mothering has had a tremendous...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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| In: |
History compass
Year: 2009, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 1542-1553 |
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| Summary: | This essay explores how both scholars have understood the category of motherhood in 20th-century Mexican history. From the self-sacrificing, long-suffering icon of ‘traditional’ motherhood to the ‘modern’ mother who used up-to-date child-rearing techniques, mothers and mothering has had a tremendous symbolic value to various parts of Mexican society. The discourse of motherhood was deployed in multiple ways, by multiple actors since Porfirian times and throughout the postrevolutionary era. A robust scholarship has developed around the concept of mothers, motherhood and maternity. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00650.x |
