Elizabeth Dore is Reader in Latin American History at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis and editor of Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice.Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is the author of State Policies and the Position of Women in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1967–77.

“This collection promises to be a thought-provoking and well-used source for the continuing debates in this field. A great asset for researchers and students alike.”-Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge “This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women’s agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state.”-Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xvI. State and Gender in Latin America One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Dore 3Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux 33II. Case Studies Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 / Eugenia RodrÍguez S. 85Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State / MarÍa Eugenia Chaves 108Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810–1830 / Rebecca Earle 127Property, Households, and the Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840–1900 / Elizabeth Dore 147Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 172Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930–1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan 194Commemorating the HeroÍnas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz 215Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law / Ann Varley 238Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 262State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The FederaciÓn de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux 291Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher 322Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group / Fiona Macaulay 346Contributors 369Index 371

Elizabeth Dore is Reader in Latin American History at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis and editor of Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice.Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is the author of State Policies and the Position of Women in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1967–77.

“This collection promises to be a thought-provoking and well-used source for the continuing debates in this field. A great asset for researchers and students alike.”-Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge “This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women’s agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state.”-Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xvI. State and Gender in Latin America One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Dore 3Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux 33II. Case Studies Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 / Eugenia RodrÍguez S. 85Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State / MarÍa Eugenia Chaves 108Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810–1830 / Rebecca Earle 127Property, Households, and the Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840–1900 / Elizabeth Dore 147Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 172Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930–1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan 194Commemorating the HeroÍnas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz 215Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law / Ann Varley 238Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 262State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The FederaciÓn de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux 291Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher 322Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group / Fiona Macaulay 346Contributors 369Index 371

Elizabeth Dore is Reader in Latin American History at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis and editor of Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice.Maxine Molyneux is Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is the author of State Policies and the Position of Women in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1967–77.

“This collection promises to be a thought-provoking and well-used source for the continuing debates in this field. A great asset for researchers and students alike.”-Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge “This splendid volume is unique for its analytical savvy regarding the gendered history of power, authority, and cooptation in Latin America. Each chapter provides a provocative and detailed rendering of patriarchal societies and women’s agency from spaces as varied as households and legislatures. This book will be of wide interest to specialists on the region and, far more broadly, it will spur reinvigorated theoretical debate on the tortuous relationship historically between gender and the state.”-Matthew C. Gutmann, author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xvI. State and Gender in Latin America One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century / Elizabeth Dore 3Twentieth-Century State Formations in Latin America / Maxine Molyneux 33II. Case Studies Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, 1750–1850 / Eugenia RodrÍguez S. 85Slave Women's Strategies for Freedom and the Late Spanish Colonial State / MarÍa Eugenia Chaves 108Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810–1830 / Rebecca Earle 127Property, Households, and the Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua, 1840–1900 / Elizabeth Dore 147Parents Before the Tribunals: The Legal Construction of Patriarchy in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 172Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico, 1930–1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan 194Commemorating the HeroÍnas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Laura Gotkowitz 215Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law / Ann Varley 238Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in Popular-Front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 262State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The FederaciÓn de Mujeres Cubanas / Maxine Molyneux 291Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa / Jo Fisher 322Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group / Fiona Macaulay 346Contributors 369Index 371