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Rescate diacrónico del papel de la infancia, su participación en el hogar, en la calle, en su relación con figuras de autoridad desde padres hasta funcionarios.
The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
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In Perfect Motherhood, Rima D. Apple shows how the growing belief that mothers need to be savvy about the latest scientific directives has shifted the role of expert away from the mother and toward the professional establishment.
Children of the City re-creates turn-of-the-century American cities from the point of view of the children who lived there. Illustrated with sixty-eight period photographs, it offers a vivid portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, and their aspirations.
In the nineteenth century, infants were commonly breast-fed; by the middle of the twentieth century, women typically bottle-fed their babies on the advice of their doctors. In this book, Rima D. Apple discloses and analyzes the complex interactions of science, medicine, economics, and culture that underlie this dramatic shift in infant-care practices and women’s lives. As infant feeding became the keystone of the emerging specialty of pediatrics in the twentieth century, the manufacture of infant food became a lucrative industry. More and more mothers reported difficulty in nursing their babies. While physicians were establishing themselves and the scientific experts and the infant-food in...