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A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power,
class, gender, and public health. In "Sex and Danger in Buenos
Aires" these questions combine with particular force. During most
of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late
nineteenth century well into the twentieth, prostitution was legal
in Argentina. Fears and anxieties concerning the effect of female
sexual commerce on family and nation were rampant.
In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest in children also led them into the battle for female suffrage and the campaign to promote the legal adoption of children. When Juan Peron expanded the welfare system during his presidency (1946-1955), he reorganized private charitable organizations that had, until then, often been led by elite and immigrant women. Drawing on extensive research in Argentine archives, Guy reveals significant continuities in Argentine history, including the rise of a liberal state that subsidized all kinds of women's and religious groups. State and private welfare efforts became more organized in the 1930s and reached a pinnacle under Juan Peron, when men took over the welfare state and philanthropic and feminist women's influence on child-welfare activities and policy declined. Comparing the rise of Argentina's welfare state with the development of others around the world, Guy considers both why women's child-welfare initiatives have not received more attention in historical accounts and whether the welfare state emerges from the top down or from the bottom up.
"White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead" brings together a
diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health
and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. What the
essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family,
and the rise of increasingly interventionist nation-states in Latin
America, and particularly in Argentina.
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