Table of Contents: Macho men and modern women

Main Author:	Roesch, Claudia H., 1958-
Other Authors:	Ebooks Corporation.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2015]
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 508 pages) : illustrations.
Series:	Family values and social change ; v. 1. Ebook Library (EBL)
Subjects:	Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican American families. Families -- United States. Values -- United States. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Macho Men and Modern Women ; 1. The State of Research on Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigration ; 2. Research in American Family History ; 3. Social Experts and History of Science ; 4. Theoretical and Methodological Framework ; 5. Structure of this Volume.
1 Americanization and the "Cultural Deficiency Paradigm" (1920s-1930s) 1.1 "Go after the Women": Mexican-origin Mothers in Americanization Programs ; 1.2 "Appeal to his manhood": Negotiating Gender Norms and Practices in Social Workers' Complaint Files.
2. The Eugenics Movement and the Biological Essentialist Paradigm (1920s-1930s) 2.1 "Is he a real man?": Hegemonic Ideals of Fatherhood ; 2.2 "The Evils of Unregulated Birth": Eugenic Thinking, Family Size and Birth Control.
3. The Modernization Paradigm and the Isolated Nuclear Family (1940s-1950s) 3.1 "...we must begin with the BOY": Masculine Role Models, Modernization and Measures against Juvenile Delinquency ; 3.2 Rural Motherhood between Isolation and Agency as Midwives and Healers.
4. From Modernization Theory to a Psychologization Paradigm (1950s-1960s) 4.1 Familia, Machismo, Compadrazgo? Debates on Democratic Family Structures in the Cold War Context ; 4.2 The Culture of Poverty and "multi-problem families" in Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society.