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Mothering Mexico: The Historiography of Mothers and Motherhood in 20th‐Century Mexico
Author(s) -
Sanders Nichole
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00650.x
Subject(s) - historiography , scholarship , value (mathematics) , icon , gender studies , developmental psychology , history , psychology , sociology , political science , law , archaeology , machine learning , computer science , programming language
This essay explores how both scholars have understood the category of motherhood in 20th‐century Mexican history. From the self‐sacrificing, long‐suffering icon of ‘traditional’ motherhood to the ‘modern’ mother who used up‐to‐date child‐rearing techniques, mothers and mothering has had a tremendous symbolic value to various parts of Mexican society. The discourse of motherhood was deployed in multiple ways, by multiple actors since Porfirian times and throughout the postrevolutionary era. A robust scholarship has developed around the concept of mothers, motherhood and maternity.