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

Author/Contributor(s):	Otovo, Okezi T
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	05/31/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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-Bra