Nichole Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College.

“Gender and Welfare in Mexico connects the development of ideas about family and gender globally to the development of Mexico City's professional class and the evolution of the Mexican postrevolutionary political system in original and important ways. Engagingly written, richly researched, and rigorously argued, this book will matter deeply to anyone concerned with the history of twentieth-century Mexico and with the transnational history of gender and the welfare state.”—Anne Rubenstein, York University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Gender, Race, and the Pan-American Child Congresses2Welfare Reform in Mexico: Stabilizing the Family3Single Mothers and the State4The Postwar Years: Disease Eradication, Sanitation, and Development5The Rise of Social Work in MexicoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Nichole Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College.

“Gender and Welfare in Mexico connects the development of ideas about family and gender globally to the development of Mexico City's professional class and the evolution of the Mexican postrevolutionary political system in original and important ways. Engagingly written, richly researched, and rigorously argued, this book will matter deeply to anyone concerned with the history of twentieth-century Mexico and with the transnational history of gender and the welfare state.”—Anne Rubenstein, York University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Gender, Race, and the Pan-American Child Congresses2Welfare Reform in Mexico: Stabilizing the Family3Single Mothers and the State4The Postwar Years: Disease Eradication, Sanitation, and Development5The Rise of Social Work in MexicoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Nichole Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College.

“Gender and Welfare in Mexico connects the development of ideas about family and gender globally to the development of Mexico City's professional class and the evolution of the Mexican postrevolutionary political system in original and important ways. Engagingly written, richly researched, and rigorously argued, this book will matter deeply to anyone concerned with the history of twentieth-century Mexico and with the transnational history of gender and the welfare state.”—Anne Rubenstein, York University

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Gender, Race, and the Pan-American Child Congresses2Welfare Reform in Mexico: Stabilizing the Family3Single Mothers and the State4The Postwar Years: Disease Eradication, Sanitation, and Development5The Rise of Social Work in MexicoEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex