TY - JOUR
AU - Hamlin, Kimberly
AB - polity. Tempo and Diner never lose sight of these com- track of how state power and nativism figured sig- plexities, as this early context helps to explain contin- nificantly in the lives of immigrants past and present. ual movement from Mexico to the United States and Immigration meets this challenge, indeed. back, often blurring the will of the state with the will Grace Peña  Delgado  University of California, Santa of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Cruz Tempo and Diner highlight the first official state actions against immigrants are the repatriation drives of Mexicans beginning in the Great Depression Era. Felicity M. Turner. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, They argue that repatriation was an actively euphemis- and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Amer- tic term preferred over deportation by American fed- ica. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina eral and local officials to describe the forced removal of Press, 2022. Pp. 228. Paper $29.95. Mexican-descent people from the United States. Repa- triation, although no less pernicious, was more com- In Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical plicated, they argue. At all levels of governance, the Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America, Felic- state had to balance a delicate line between voluntary ity M. Turner convincingly 
TI - Felicity M. Turner. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America.
JO - American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhad522
DA - 2024-03-13
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/felicity-m-turner-proving-pregnancy-gender-law-and-medical-knowledge-gEsGS4wDOF
SP - 306
EP - 307
VL - 129
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