Progressive mothers, better babies: Race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945 Book

Otovo, OT. (2016). Progressive mothers, better babies: Race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945 . 1-273. 10.7560/308837

cited authors

  • Otovo, OT

authors

abstract

  • This illuminating study explores the social and cultural history of Brazilian family health and welfare policies-particularly the effect of the reform-minded maternalist movement on impoverished women and children and on the uneven integration of Afro-Brazilians into the modern welfare state.

publication date

  • January 1, 2016

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start page

  • 1

end page

  • 273