Title The wages of motherhood : inequality in the welfare state, 1917-1942 / Gwendolyn Mink

Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) Contents The promise of Motherhood: maternalist social policy between the wars -- Wages for Motherhood: Mothers' pensions and cultural reform -- "A baby saved is a citizen gained": infancy protection and maternal reform -- Schooling for Motherhood: woman's role and "American" culture in the curriculum -- Cultural reform across the color line: maternalists and the politics of educational provision -- Maternalism in the New Deal Welfare State: women's dependency, racial inequality, and the Icon of welfare Motherhood -- Wage earning or Motherhood: maternalist Labor policy during World Warr II -- Post maternalist welfare politics Summary Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how Anglo American women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy -- United States Motherhood -- Government policy -- United States Poor women -- Government policy -- United States New Deal, 1933-1939. Maternal Welfare -- history Infant Welfare -- history Public Policy -- history New Deal. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century New Deal, 1933-1939 Economic history Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy Motherhood -- Government policy Poor women -- Government policy Verzorgingsstaat. Moederschapszorg. SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140023 United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501728860 1501728865

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