Representaciones del cuerpo infantil en los libros de texto mexicanos, 1880-1940

The aim of this study is to analyze the representations and speeches on the children's body in Mexican primary school, and to see how hygiene, morality and gender relations are conceived. Its main source is a set of books, from different disciplines, that circulated between 1882 and 1940. They were published as a result of agreements reached in three hygienic and educational congresses (1882, 1889 and 1890) and were updated in response to other educational projects such as the Rural School (1920) and the Socialist School (1940). In a first stage, the writer addresses the urban reader, where st...