Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955 Book

Contents

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 Feminism from the Damas to Eva Perón....................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