RT Article
T1 Mothering Mexico: The Historiography of Mothers and Motherhood in 20th-Century Mexico
JF History compass
VO 7
IS 6
SP 1542
OP 1553
A1 Sanders, Nichole 1970-
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1928938043
AB 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.
DO 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00650.x