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

Klein, Marian van der.
2012
HQ759 .M37365 2012eb
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Title
Maternalism reconsidered [electronic resource] : motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century / edited by Marian van der Klein [and others].
ISBN
9780857454676 electronic bk
9780857454669
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 275 pages).
Call Number
HQ759 .M37365 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.874/3
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Klein, Marian van der.
Series
International studies in social history ; v. 20.
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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.

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