Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945

Otovo, Okezi T.

Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945

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Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945
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By Okezi T. Otovo
2016
Published by: University of Texas Press
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

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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.