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10%OFFDonna J. Guy - Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955 - 9780822343301 - V9780822343301
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Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955

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Description for Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955 Paperback. An historical account of the significant roles of feminists and female philanthropists in the emergence of the Argentine welfare state between 1880 and 1955. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; HB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest in children ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822343301
SKU
V9780822343301
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About Donna J. Guy
Donna J. Guy is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of History at Ohio State University. She is the author of White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health, and Progress in Latin America and Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina and an editor of ... Read more

Reviews for Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955
“[Guy’s] scholarship combines a sweeping command of the literature on gender and welfare with an intimate understanding of the Argentine particulars based in an incredible wealth of archival research. For these reasons the book may be profitably read by analysts of gender, of welfare states, and of Argentine social politics.” - Karen Mead, Hispanic American Historical Review “[A] well-researched and ... Read more

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