Macho Men and Modern Women: Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States

Claudia Roesch

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2015

Macho Men and Modern Women

Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States

Claudia Roesch

Volume 1 in the series Family Values and Social Change

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399455

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About this book

Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family history. The book focuses both on the negotiation of family norms in social expert studies and on measures taken by social workers and civil-rights activists for families. The work fills gaps in research regarding the history of the American family in the 20th century, the history of Mexican Americans, and the history of social sciences. Taking a long-term perspective from the first wave of Mexican mass immigration in the 1910s and 1920s until the new social movements of the 1970s, the study takes into account influences of the Americanization and eugenics movements, modernization theory, psychoanalysis, and the Chicano civil-rights movement. Thus, Claudia Roesch offers important new findings on the nexus between the scientization of social work and changing family values in the age of modernity.

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Claudia Roesch, University of Münster

Reviews

"All the aforementioned aspects make the book highly recommendable for scholars working on the gendered history of the US-American family in the twentieth century, or on the history of Mexican immigration and Mexican Americans. However, it is a must-read for everyone interested in a nuanced exploration of the "scientization of the social". Claudia Roesch not only provides evidence of the social sciences' extraordinary and contested role in shaping social norms and order, she also innovatively explores the mutually fruitful cooperation between social science experts and social work agencies throughout the twentieth century in the United States."
Teresa Huhle in H-Soz-Kult, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2018-1-064

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Macho Men and Modern Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Americanization and the “Cultural Deficiency Paradigm” (1920s–1930s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2. The Eugenics Movement and the Biological Essentialist Paradigm (1920s–1930s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
3. The Modernization Paradigm and the Isolated Nuclear Family (1940s–1950s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
4. From Modernization Theory to a Psychologization Paradigm (1950s–1960s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
5. The Emerging Chicano Movement and the New Ethnic Paradigm (1960s–1970s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Conclusion and Outlook: Family: A Project for the 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 508
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika; Mexican Americans; Geschichte der Sozialwissenschaften; Wertewandel; 20. Jahrhundert

eBook

Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110399455

Hardcover

Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110379785