Women build the welfare state
Subtitle: performing charity and creating rights in Argentina, 1880-1955
By: Donna J. Guy.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780822343479; 9780822343301
Subjects: Women in charitable work -- Argentina; Women philanthropists -- Argentina; Feminists -- Argentina; Welfare state -- Argentina; Women in politics -- Argentina
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Female philanthropy and feminism before the welfare state: family law, and the politics of names; title: Benevolence and female volunteerism; title: Performing child welfare : philanthropy and feminism from the damas to Eva Perón; title: Juvenile delinquency, patriarchy, and female philanthropy; title: The depression and the rise of the welfare state; title: At the crossroads of change : Peronism, the welfare state, and the decline of non-Peronist female authority.