Background
Arrom, Silvia Marina was born on August 26, 1949 in New Haven. Daughter of Jose Juan and Silvia (Ravelo) Arrom.
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In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House—the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed. For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the undisputed right to receive alms and whose affluent citizens felt duty-bound to dispense them, the experiment was doomed from the start, explains Arrom. She uses deep archival research to reveal that—much to policymakers’ dismay—the Poor House became an orphanage largely because the government had underestimated the embeddedness of this moral economy of begging. While tracing the course of an eventful century that also saw colonialism give way to republicanism in Mexico, Arrom links the Poor House’s transformation with other societal factors as well, such as Mexican women’s increasing impact on social welfare policies. With poverty, begging, and homelessness still rampant in much of Latin America today, this study of changing approaches to social welfare will be particularly valuable to student and scholars of Mexican and Latin American society and history, as well as those engaged in the study of social and welfare policy.
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This pioneering study poses three main questions: Were women's roles in this era as narrow and unimportant as has been assumed? To what extent were women dominated by men? Can significant differences be found betweeen younger and older women, married and single, upper class and lower class?
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Arrom, Silvia Marina was born on August 26, 1949 in New Haven. Daughter of Jose Juan and Silvia (Ravelo) Arrom.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, California, 1978.
Assistant professor of history, Yale University, New Haven, 1977-1984; associate professor of history, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1987-1991; Jane's chair in Latin American studies, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1991; director Latin American studies, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1991.
(This pioneering study poses three main questions: Were wo...)
( In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poo...)
Member New England Council Latin American Studies (president 1997), Boston Area Consortium on Latin American (director since 1992), American History Association, Committee on Latin American History, Latin American Studies Association, Coordinating Committee on Women in History.
Married David R. Oran, December 30, 1972. Children: Christina Alexandra, Daniel David.
