A Historical Perspective on Reproductive Politics in Chile. A Review of Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney's <em>The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile</em> (Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh, 2009)

Authors

  • Nara Milanich Barnard College, Columbia University

Keywords:

maternity, gender issues, women's rights

Abstract

A review of Jadwiga Pieper Mooney's The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)

Author Biography

Nara Milanich, Barnard College, Columbia University

Nara Milanich es docente de historia latinoamericana en Barnard College en la Universidad de Columbia. Su investigación y su docencia versan sobre la historia de la familia y el parentesco, género, infancia, desigualdad social y la ley. Es autora de Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 (Editorial de la Universidad de Duke, 2009), que fue galardonado con el premio Grace Abbott, y es coeditora (con Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Klubock, y Peter Winn) de The Chile Reader (de próxima aparición con la Editorial de la Universidad de Duke, 2013). Forma parte del consejo editorial de la revista Hispanic American Historical Review.

Published

2012-10-15

How to Cite

Milanich, N. (2012). A Historical Perspective on Reproductive Politics in Chile. A Review of Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney’s <em>The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile</em> (Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh, 2009). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 10(1), 559–569. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/638

Issue

Section

Reviews: Gender Questions in the Southern Cone