The politics of motherhood : maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile /
Maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
- xiii, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Pitt Latin American Series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.
Public health, managed motherhood, and patriarchy in a modernizing nation -- Local agency, changed global paradigms, and the burden of motherhood -- Planning motherhood under Christian democracy -- Gendered citizenship rights on the peaceful road to socialism -- From mothers' rights to women's rights in a nation under siege -- International encounters and women's empowerment under dictatorship and redemocratization.