Katherine Elaine Bliss

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health and Progress in Latin America (review)

Historians interested in issues ranging from Pan Americanism and gender studies to the intersections of law and science will welcome this new book. The short collection unites for the first time Donna Guys published essays on such topics as womens labor in northwestern Argentina, social reformers Emilio and Gabriela Coni, and the relationships among feminists, social workers and pediatricians in the hemisphere-wide child rights movement. Spanning nearly two decades of work, the vojume enables the reader to survey a variety of topics related to gender, modernity and politics in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Latin America, and to appreciate how one historians approaches to the issues have changed over time.