Bücher von Nora E. Jaffary

Chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Nora E. Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern Mexico, and the growth of modern medicine in the Latin American context.

A comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from pre-Columbian Mexico to the neoliberal present.