Title Mothers of a New World : Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (460 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mother Worlds -- Mother Worlds and the Politics of Motherliness; The Origins of Maternalist Movements; The Paradoxical Legacies of Maternalism; Conclusions; Notes; 1. The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930; Welfare and Work: Two Sides of the Same Coin; The Sociopolitical Origins of Middle-Class Women's Political Culture; Class Themes in the Political Culture of Urban Men, 1870-1900; Stalemate in Men's Political Culture The Flowering of Middle-Class Women's Political Culture, 1860-1900White Middle-Class Women and Men Create the Welfare State; The End of an Era; Notes; 2. Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action, and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840 to 1914; Introduction; The ""Useful Power"" of Ladies: Mary Carpenter, JuvenilePunishment, and the State; Mary Ward, Civic Maternalism, and State Welfare; Ward's Collectivist Road: From ""Higher Criticism"" toRecreation Schools; Socialism and Voluntarism: Margaret McMillan inSouth London; Conclusions; Notes 3. Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation, 1890-1929Introduction; Bourgeois Social Reform in Wilhelmine Germany; The Bourgeois Women's Movement and the Concept of Social Motherhood -- Women, War, and Welfare: The Nationalization of the Women's Movement; Welfare in Weimar: The Bureaucratization of Social Work; Notes; 4. Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Clients before the First World War; Introduction; Women's Work, Social Science, and Bureaucracy Social Science, Gendered Labor, and Welfare in Saxony: The Oberlausitz WeaversNotes; 5. Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States; Notes; 6. The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the Political -- The Historical and Political Underpinnings of Motherhood in the Early-Twentieth-Century Women's Movement; Black Women Activists; The National Association of Colored Women; Into the Home; Relationship to the Labor Question and Education; Relationship to the Fight against Segregation and Racial Violence ""Acred Motherhood:"" White Women Reformersand the CourtsConclusion; Notes; 7. Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the Late Third Republic; Social Catholicism Confronts the Woman Question; The Campaign for the Unwaged Mother's Allowance; Family Policy and Women's Freedom: Conversations between Women; Conclusion; Notes; 8. The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era; The Child-Care Movement; The Day Nursery as Charity; The Day Nursery as School and Clinic; The Politics of Child Care Summary First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company Notes The Movement for Mothers' Pensions Print version record Subject Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy -- History Motherhood -- Government policy -- History Women social reformers -- History Welfare state -- History Feminism -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Feminism Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy Motherhood -- Government policy Welfare state Women social reformers Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Michel, Sonya ISBN 9781136638695 1136638695

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