Social Darwinism encouraged eugenic policies around the world which took a particular form in Latin America and played out quite differently in different countries from policies of immigration and family planning. With populist movements of the 1930s and 1940s, prostitution and motherhood became sites of state interest and intervention. We look at Brazil and Argentina. The Hour of Eugenics remaining chapters, esp. Readings and films concentrate on Mexico.
Materials deal with Argentina and Chile.
We also look at female sterilization in 20 th Century Puerto Rico. Look at women's struggles within transnational contexts on two levels. First, women's place in transnational economic and development ventures on the Mexican borderlands. Secondly, women's experiences crossing borders as exiles and refugees. Explore tensions between international discourses of human rights grounded in nations as units of analysis and transnational movements of people and wealth.