Maternity and biopolitics in Argentina: Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro, <em>El Libro de las Madres</em>, and eugenics (1870-1955)

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https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-201911201

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maternity, biopolitics, eugenics, Aráoz Alfaro, Argentina

Abstract

The following article aims to historicize the biopolitical concept of maternity in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century. To do so, it focuses on the figure of physician Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro, who, in the first two editions of his text El Libro de las Madres [The Book of Mothers], published between 1899 and 1922, shifts from the incorporation of entrenched principles on hygiene towards more novel questions on eugenics. It is in this sense, and based on the existence of a dominant paradigm which solely conceived of female sexuality for reproduction, that we consider such a focus on this famous pediatrician to constitute a valuable resource for inquiries into this mandate on women and their concurrent biopolitics, focused, in this case, on situated theories and praxis.

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Marisa Adriana Miranda, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires

Investigadora Independiente del CONICET. Sub directora del Instituto de Cultura Jurídica de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Profesora Titular ordinaria (por concurso) de la misma Universidad. Docente de posgrado en diversas universidades del país y del exterior. Autora de numerosos artículos, capítulos de libros y libros vinculados a la temática eugenesia y biopolíticas de la sexualidad.

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2019-06-01

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Miranda, M. A. (2019). Maternity and biopolitics in Argentina: Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro, <em>El Libro de las Madres</em>, and eugenics (1870-1955). Passages: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture, 11(2), 156-176. https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-201911201

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Vol. 11 - No. 2 - Maio a Agosto (2019)

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