Children of Fate : Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 PDF
by Milanich Nara B. Milanich, Milanich Nara B. Milanich
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Milanich pays particular attention to family law, arguing that liberal legal reforms wrought in the 1850s, which left the paternity of illegitimate children purposely unrecorded, reinforced not only patriarchal power but also hierarchies of class. Through vivid stories culled from judicial and notarial sources and from a cache of documents found in the closet of a Santiago orphanage, she reveals how law and bureaucracy helped create an anonymous underclass bereft of kin entitlements, dependent on the charity of others, and marginalized from public bureaucracies. Milanich also challenges the recent scholarly emphasis on state formation by highlighting the enduring importance of private, informal, and extralegal relations of power within and across households. Children of Fate demonstrates how the study of children can illuminate the social organization of gender and class, liberalism, law, and state power in modern Latin America.
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- Pages:372 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2009
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:372 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2009
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- ISBN:9780822391296