their bodies. Necochea’s work thus enriches substantially our understandings of gender, sexuality and the family in Peruvian history. A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru contains six thematic and roughly chronological chapters. Chapter surveys physicians’ and officials’ ideas about eugenics in the first half of the twentieth century, arguing that such figures saw changes in reproductive behaviour, safe birthing practices, proper parenting, and the control of vices as key components of building a healthy and productive nation. Chapter ana- lyses the work and legacy of Irene Silva de Santolalla, a Peruvian senator and conser- vative proponent of family education, who sought to create ‘well-constituted families’ by training wives and mothers to embrace female domesticity and become models of responsible parenting. Breaking with the biographical approach and emphasising or- dinary people’s experiences, chapter examines the illegal practice of abortion in Peru. Necochea uses criminal cases to reconstruct the meanings society ascribed to abortion, the myriad reasons women themselves took action to end their pregnancies and the relationship between abortion providers and others involved in family plan- ning. Chapter reconstructs the experiences of health workers who embraced family planning and gradually came to support access to birth control by mid- century, resulting in the development of a provider-led model of family planning ser- vices by the s that reinforced experts’ power while failing to seek input from the women they assisted. Finally, Chapters and analyse the roles of civilian and military governments and the Catholic Church in developing and promoting family planning. Necochea argues that while governments focused on smaller families as the key to furthering socio-economic development and sought to mediate the influence of inter- national agencies, the Church assumed the position in the s that contraception did not contradict religious teachings if it was used to space births properly and thereby create better constituted, more stable family units. Although Necochea’s intervention in demographic transition theory merits the at- tention it receives in the book’s introduction, some readers may wish he had more de- liberately highlighted other contributions the book makes. It particular, Necochea’s analysis significantly enhances our understanding of public health and the work of medical professionals under the Odría and Velasco dictatorships, as well as the civilian governments that ruled at mid-century. Its contributions to understandings of gender, sexuality, race and class in Peruvian society are likewise noteworthy. Finally, some readers may also wish that Necochea had discussed in greater depth in the book’s epi- logue the cases of coerced and forced sterilisations in the s that framed the intro- duction, as this would add to the political import of his analysis and its relevance for recent Peruvian history. None of these concerns, however, diminishes the importance of this beautifully researched and engaging contribution to Peruvian history, the history of medicine and the history of family planning. ADAM WARREN University of Washington J. Lat. Amer. Stud. (). doi:./SXX David William Foster, Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer, and Post-masculinist Perspectives (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ), pp. xviii + ,£., hb. The author of this work ought to be embarrassed by it. Cobbling together essays, reviews and notes did not make a book, especially one the bloated title of which Book Reviews