Macho men and modern women : Mexican immigration, social experts and changing family values in the 20th century United States /

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With the arrival of Mexican immigrant families in the United States different notions of family converged. Did this result in a change in mainstream society's understanding of family values?This longterm study from 1910 to 1980 offers new insight on the interplay of the scientization of social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roesch, Claudia H., 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2015]
Colección:Family values and social change.
Temas:
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Mexican American families.
Families > United States.
Values > United States.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Acculturation.
Familles américaines d'origine mexicaine.
Familles > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Families
Mexican American families
Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation
Mexican Americans > Social conditions
Values
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Macho Men and Modern Women ; 1. The State of Research on Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigration ; 2. Research in American Family History ; 3. Social Experts and History of Science ; 4. Theoretical and Methodological Framework ; 5. Structure of this Volume.
  • 1 Americanization and the "Cultural Deficiency Paradigm" (1920s-1930s) 1.1 "Go after the Women": Mexican-origin Mothers in Americanization Programs ; 1.2 "Appeal to his manhood": Negotiating Gender Norms and Practices in Social Workers' Complaint Files.
  • 2. The Eugenics Movement and the Biological Essentialist Paradigm (1920s-1930s) 2.1 "Is he a real man?": Hegemonic Ideals of Fatherhood ; 2.2 "The Evils of Unregulated Birth": Eugenic Thinking, Family Size and Birth Control.
  • 3. The Modernization Paradigm and the Isolated Nuclear Family (1940s-1950s) 3.1 " ... we must begin with the BOY": Masculine Role Models, Modernization and Measures against Juvenile Delinquency ; 3.2 Rural Motherhood between Isolation and Agency as Midwives and Healers.
  • 4. From Modernization Theory to a Psychologization Paradigm (1950s-1960s) 4.1 Familia, Machismo, Compadrazgo? Debates on Democratic Family Structures in the Cold War Context ; 4.2 The Culture of Poverty and "multi-problem families" in Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society.

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