Infancia en blanco y negro: La experiencia de la crianza en Estados Unidos a principios del siglo XX

Abstract

In this paper, I am going to discuss children’s agency, but will also consider the ways that national discourses regarding mothering, gender roles, race, hygiene and healthcare, shaped the everyday experience of childhood in the early 20th century. My archaeological evidence will be drawn from four early twentieth- century American house sites. Despite the diversity of economic, employment and ethnoracial experiences of these families, each family found their nurturing and rearing of children shaped by discourses debated outside of the home.