Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

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Titel: Maternalism Reconsidered : Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
1 Introduction: A New Generation of Scholars on Maternalism
2 Maternalism and Beyond
3 The State, the Women’s Movement and Maternity Insurance, 1900–1930: A Dutch Maternalism?
4 Mobilizing Mothers in the Nation’s Service: Civic Culture in France’s Familial Welfare State, 1890–1914
5 Speaking on Behalf of Others: Dutch Social Workers and the Problem of Maternalist Condescension
6 ‘Respectable Citizens of Canada’: Gender, Maternalism and the Welfare State in the Great Depression
7 The Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages: Patriotic Maternalists and Their Critics in Interwar America
8 Protecting Mothers in Order to Protect Children: Maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress
9 Maternal and Child Welfare, State Policy and Women’s Philanthropic Activities in Brazil, 1930–45
10 Maternalism in a Paternalist State: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy in Fascist Italy
11 Maternalism, Soviet-Style: The Working ‘Mothers with Many Children’ in Post-war Western Ukraine
12 The Origins and Transformations of the Infant-Maternity Health and Nutritional Programmes in Argentina
13 Afterword: Maternalism Today
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Campbell, Lara [MitwirkendeR]; Idiart, Alma [MitwirkendeR]; Klein, Marian van der [MitwirkendeR]; Klein, Marian van der [HerausgeberIn]; Michel, Sonya [MitwirkendeR]; Mitsuyoshi, Yoshie [MitwirkendeR]; Mott, Maria Lúcia [MitwirkendeR]; Plant, Rebecca Jo [MitwirkendeR]; Plant, Rebecca Jo [HerausgeberIn]; Sanders, Nichole [MitwirkendeR]; Sanders, Nichole [HerausgeberIn]; Vezzosi, Elisabetta [MitwirkendeR]; Waaldijk, Berteke [MitwirkendeR]; Weintrob, Lori R. [MitwirkendeR]; Weintrob, Lori R. [HerausgeberIn]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2012]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (282 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780857454676

ISBN: 9780857454676

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Schlagwörter: Motherhood History 20th century ; Mothers History 20th century ; Public welfare History 20th century ; Social policy History 20th century ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed ‘maternalism’. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications

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