Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. I. State and Gender in Latin America
6. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 1
7. Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America 33
8. II. Case Studies
9. Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 85
10. Slave Women’s Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State 108
11. Rape and the Anxious Republic 127
12. Property, Households, and Public Regulation of Domestic Life 147
13. Parents Before the Tribunals 172
14. Modernizing Patriarchy 194
15. Commemorating the Heroínas 215
16. Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law 238
17. Domesticating Men 262
18. State, Gender, and Institutional Change 291
19. Gender and the State in Argentina 322
20. Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda 346
21. Contributors 369
22. Index 371