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Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930

Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930

Milanich, Nara B.

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General World HistorySouth American HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822345579
ISBN13: 9780822345572
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 9 2009
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families both elite and plebeian in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, she focuses on a group largely invisible in Latin American historiography: children. The concept of family constituted a crucial dimension of an individual's identity and status, but also denoted a privileged set of gendered and generational dependencies that not all people could claim. Children of Fate explores such themes as paternity, illegitimacy, kinship, and child circulation over the course of eighty years of Chile's modern history to illuminate the ways family practices and ideologies powerfully shaped the lives of individuals as well as broader social structures.

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