Maternalism reconsidered : motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century / edited by Marian van der Klein ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Marian van der.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 20.

International studies in social history ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--History--20th century.

Motherhood.

Mothers--History--20th century.

Mothers.

Social policy--History--20th century.

Social policy.

Public welfare--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein

Beyond maternalism / Sonya Michel

The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? / Marian van der Klein

Mobilising mothers in the nation's service : civic culture in France's familial welfare state, 1890-1914 / Lori R. Weintrob

Speaking on behalf of others : Dutch social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension / Berteke Waaldijk

'Respectable citizens of Canada' : gender and the welfare state in the Great Depression / Lara Campbell

The gold star mothers pilgrimages : patriotic maternalists and their critics in the interwar U.S. / Rebecca Jo Plant

Protecting mothers in order to protect children : maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nichole Sanders

Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lucia Mott

Maternalism in a paternalist state : the national organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy / Elisabetta Vezzosi

Maternalism, Soviet-style : the working 'mothers with many children' in postwar Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshi

Infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina : maternalism without maternalists? / Alma Idiart

Afterword : maternalism today / Rebecca Jo Plant.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-688-X

1-280-49662-2

9786613591852

0-85745-467-6

OCLC:

793996541