Hidden histories of gender and the state in Latin America / y Elizabeth Dore & Maxine Molyneux, editors.

"This volume originated in a conference held at London University's Institute of Latin American Studies in June 1996". --[Prefaci]

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex.

One step forward, two steps back: gender and the state in the long nineteenth century / Elizabeth Dore -- Twentieth-century state formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux -- Civilizing domestic life in the central valley of Costa Rica, 1750-1850 / Eugenia Rodríguez S. -- Slave women's strategies for freedom and the late Spanish colonial state / María Eugenia Chaves -- Rape and the anxious republic: revolutionary Colombia, 1810-1830 / Rebecca Earle -- Property, households, and public regulation of domestic life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840-1900 / Elizabeth Dore -- Parents before the tribunals: the legal construction of patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy -- Modernizing patriarchy: state policies, rural households, and women in Mexico, 1930-1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan -- Commemorating the heroínas: gender and civic ritual in early-twentieth-century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz -- Women and the home in Mexican family law / Ann Varley -- Domesticating men: state building and class compromise in popular-front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt -- State, gender, and institutional change: the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux -- Gender and the state in Argentina: the case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher -- Getting gender on the policy agenda: a study of a Brazilian feminist lobby group / Fiona Macaulay.