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Motherhood and the State in the Borderlands Motherhood and the State in the Borderlands
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American Mothers, Mexican Workers American Mothers, Mexican Workers
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Mexican Motherhood: A View from the Spanish-Language Press Mexican Motherhood: A View from the Spanish-Language Press
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Borderlands Responses Borderlands Responses
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Lost in Translation Lost in Translation
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7 “Who has a greater job than a mother?”: Defining Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century
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Published:July 2012
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This chapter examines the multivoiced discourse on Mexican motherhood in the border city of El Paso, Texas, during the early twentieth century. The author analyzes writings by Anglo and ethnic Mexican reformers, medical experts, and columnists. She argues that these writers' efforts to encourage ethnic Mexican women to adopt standards of scientific motherhood were influenced by parallel national projects that placed women and mothers at the center of debates defining citizenship in both the United States and Mexico. For Anglo instructors, improving the Mexican home reinforced the image of the Mexican woman as a domestic laborer. At the same time, ethnic Mexican writers promised to elevate the image of Mexican families in the face of racial discrimination in US cities.
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