Mothers of a New World
Subtitle: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 25, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780415903141
First sentence: One of the most exciting features of the new stream of scholarship on women and the creation of the American welfare state during what has been called the "watershed" of American history between 1880 and 1920 has been its tendency to draw large conclusions about the relationship between the political activism of white middle-class women and that of other social groups.