Motherhood and childhood. The medical and psychological advice in Hijo Mío…! Buenos Aires, late 1930s.

Abstract

This article analyzes the avices by the doctors, psychologist and teachers which published in the magazine Hijo Mío…! in Buenos Aires, late 1930s. The analysis propose here becomes interesting because he had the backing of the main references of these disciplines in Argentine and because he had an important impact in the dissemination of some ideas about motherhood and childhood. We understand that in your articles is possible to trace the hegemonic discourse on these issues, in a time when eugenics and desnatalidad had become public agenda issues.