Maternidade e biopolítica na Argentina: Gregório Aráoz Alfaro, El Libro de las Madres e o eugenismo (1870-1955)
2019; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15175/1984-2503-201911201
ISSN1984-2503
Autores Tópico(s)Sociology and Education in Brazil
ResumoThe following article aims to historicize the biopolitical concept of maternity in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century.To do so, it focuses on the figure of physician Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro, who, in the first two editions of his text El Libro de las Madres [The Book of Mothers], published between 1899 and 1922, shifts from the incorporation of entrenched principles on hygiene towards more novel questions on eugenics.It is in this sense, and based on the existence of a dominant paradigm which solely conceived of female sexuality for reproduction, that we
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