Race woman -- Schooling and sexuality -- Citizen mother -- Intimate nationalism -- Image is everything -- Pedagogy, humanities, social unrest -- Education and loss
Summary
A Queer Mother for the Nation weaves a nuanced understanding of how Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, cooperated with authority and fashioned herself as the figure of Motherhood in collaboration with the state
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index
