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Eraso's study not only manages to historicize motherhood profoundly in the different fields of analysis, but also presents the interplay of medical discourses of maternity and its varied and contesting cultural facets. [...] To summarize, what can be concluded from Eraso's extensive study, is that motherhood increasingly became an object of politization in the first half of the 20th century. Medicalization, according to Eraso's analysis, was only one part of a complex set of strategies to represent motherhood which also included social problematization, invisibilization, and empowerment. Representing Argentinian Mothers is an important contribution to the cultural and social history of gender, medicine and welfarism that further research in these areas should take as a starting point. Vanessa Hose (Universitat zu Koln) in: Iberoamericana, XIV, 56 (2014). This book aims at connecting medicine, art, popular culture, gender, and ideology in modern Argentina. It does so displaying an intense use of discourses analysis. [...] While discussing some topics, and by crossing disciplinary boundaries in a very effective way, Representing Argentinian Mothers looks into new territories and makes a very creative use of both new and well-known sources. [...] Representing Argentinian Mothers is a valuable addition to the historiography of medicine in modern Latin America. Its effort to articulate an interdisciplinary reading of medicine, gender, society, and culture is commendable. Diego Armus (Swarthmore College) in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 4, Winter 2015, pp. 828-829.

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Yolanda Eraso is Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. She has published on various aspects of the social history of medicine and on contemporary issues in health policy.

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