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Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Gender, Race, and the Pan-American Child Congresses
2 Welfare Reform in Mexico: Stabilizing the Family
3 Single Mothers and the State
4 The Postwar Years: Disease Eradication, Sanitation, and Development
5 The Rise of Social Work in Mexico
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“The historiographical significance of the book cannot be overemphasized. We are finally moving from the traditional rescuing of individual heroic female figures to the understanding of gender formation processes as a key to the interplay of power between individuals and the state.”
—Carmen Ramos Escandón, Hispanic American Historical Review
