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Maternalism Reconsidered : Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century / ed. by Marian van der Klein, Lori R. Weintrob, Nichole Sanders, Rebecca Jo Plant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Social History ; 20Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857454669
  • 9780857454676
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  • 306.8743 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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