Maternalism reconsidered
Subtitle: motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century
By: [edited by] Marian van der Klein ... [et al.].
Series: International studies in social history
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857454669; 9780857454676
Subjects: Motherhood; History; Social policy; Public welfare; Mothers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein; title: Beyond maternalism / Sonya Michel; title: The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? / Marian van der Klein; title: Mobilising mothers in the nation's service : civic culture in France's familial welfare state, 1890-1914 / Lori R. Weintrob; title: Speaking on behalf of others : Dutch social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension / Berteke Waaldijk; title: 'Respectable citizens of Canada' : gender and the welfare state in the Great Depression / Lara Campbell; title: The gold star mothers pilgrimages : patriotic maternalists and their critics in the interwar U.S. / Rebecca Jo Plant; title: Protecting mothers in order to protect children : maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nichole Sanders; title: Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lucia Mott; title: Maternalism in a paternalist state : the national organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy / Elisabetta Vezzosi; title: Maternalism, Soviet-style : the working 'mothers with many children' in postwar Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshi; title: Infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina : maternalism without maternalists? / Alma Idiart; title: Afterword : maternalism today / Rebecca Jo Plant.