Donna J Guy

Women Build the Welfare State

Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows that the Argentine Welfare State was not a 1940s creation from scratch by Juan and Eva Peron, but rather an extension of a long tradition of charity and welfare activism on the part of local governments and independent groups concerning such matters

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343479
• ISBN-10: 0822343479
• Artikelnr.: 25863934

Autorenporträt

Donna J. Guy

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Female Philanthropy and Feminism before the Welfare State: Family Law
and the Politics of Names  13
2. Benevolence and Female Volunteerism  36
3. Performing Child Welfare: Philanthropy and Femnism from the Damas to Eva
Peron  58
4. Juvenile Delinquency, Patriarchy, and Female Philanthropy  83
5. The Depression and the Rise of the Welfare State  120
6. At the Crossroads of Change: Peronism, the Welfare State, and the
Decline of Non-Peronist Female Authority  151
Conclusion  186
Notes  195
Bibliography  225
Index  243