“In this deeply researched, thoughtful, and wide-ranging book, Emma Amador demands that historians of Puerto Rico profoundly shift their understandings of politics, the colonial state, and state agents. By focusing on women’s organizing around social welfare, Amador challenges earlier masculinist approaches to twentieth-century Puerto Rican politics to create a refreshingly different narrative of political demands across and beyond the archipelago. The Politics of Care Work will open a new chapter in the history of social welfare and its attendant movements for citizenship rights in modern Latin America.”—Eileen J. Findlay, author of We Are Left Without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
