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100 1 Clark, A. Kim
245 10 Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador :
|bModernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950
264 1 Pittsburgh PA :|bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,|c2012
264 4 |c©2012
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490 1 Pitt Latin American Ser
505 0 Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Gendered
Experiences and State Formation in Highland Ecuador -- 2.
Gender, Class, and State in Child Protection Programs in
Quito -- 3. Governing Sexuality and Disease -- 4.
Midwifery, Morality, and the State -- 5. The
Transformation of Ecuadorian Nursing -- Conclusion --
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
520 In 1921 Matilde Hidalgo became the first woman physician
to graduate from the Universidad Central in Quito,
Ecuador. Hidalgo was also the first woman to vote in a
national election and the first to hold public office.
Author Kim Clark relates the stories of Matilde Hidalgo
and other women who successfully challenged newly
instituted Ecuadorian state programs in the wake of the
Liberal Revolution of 1895. New laws, while they did not
specifically outline women's rights, left loopholes
wherein women could contest entry into education systems
and certain professions and vote in elections. As Clark
demonstrates, many of those who seized these opportunities
were unattached women who were socially and economically
disenfranchised. Political and social changes during the
liberal period drew new groups into the workforce. Women
found novel opportunities to pursue professions where they
did not compete directly with men. Training women for work
meant expanding secular education systems and normal
schools. Healthcare initiatives were also introduced that
employed and targeted women to reduce infant mortality,
eradicate venereal diseases, and regulate prostitution.
Many of these state programs attempted to control women's
behavior under the guise of morality and honor. Yet
highland Ecuadorian women used them to better their lives
and to gain professional training, health care, employment,
and political rights. As they engaged state programs and
used them for their own purposes, these women became
modernizers and agents of change, winning freedoms for
themselves and future generations
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650 0 Medical education -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th
century.;Medical education.;Women -- Ecuador -- Social
conditions -- 20th century.;Women -- Government policy --
Ecuador -- History -- 20th century.;Women's health
services -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century.;Women's
rights -- Ecuador -- History -- 20th century
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Medicine in Highland Ecuador : Modernizing Women,
Modernizing the State, 1895-1950|dPittsburgh PA :
University of Pittsburgh Press,c2012|z9780822962090
830 0 Pitt Latin American Ser
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