External Breeding of the hospice of Madrid: paid lactation in a ville of Ávila, between social control and repression
Abstract
Since the latest days of the nineteenth and until the last third of the twentieth century, children from zero to six years old protected by the inclusa of Madrid were sent to villages in Ávila “to be raised”. More than 50 villages in Ávila took part in this «circulation of children». Based on analysing this situation, a case study is proposed, Navalmoral de la Sierra, is one of the villages that raised the most children between 1890 and 1936, however, after the Spanish Civil war no more kids were taken there. The question as to why an entire village stopped receiving children from the inclusa begged to study the context in an ethnohistorical investigation. Repression, social control, and “suitability” of women for the new state seem to be the reasons.
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