To Serve the Nation
Juvenile Mothers, Paternalism, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910–1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11203444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Ehrick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 489-518 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s014555320001302x |
| OpenAlex | W1985402190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
This article looks at the construction and evolution of Latin America’s first “welfare state” through the lens of social assistance. What one sees in Uruguay during these years is a modernization of paternalism, whereby the state assumed some of the roles previously played by the elite and, to a lesser extent, the Catholic Church, protecting and assisting society’s “weak” without fundamentally challenging or altering class or gender inequalities or hierarchies. The article focuses on the Asociación La Bonne Garde, a state-subsidized, ostensibly private organization that housed pregnant juveniles and placed them as domestic servants in the homes of the more well-to-do. Exploring the relationships between the elite women who ran this organization, their poor juvenile wards, and state bureaucrats and other reformers illustrates the establishment and evolution of this state-sponsored paternalism as well as the ways in which the young female wards attempted to manipulate this system to their own ends
Elite · Latin Americans · Modernization theory · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subsidy · Welfare state · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society in Latin America
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2015 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |