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Title Maternity and gender policies : women and the rise of the European welfare states, 1880-1950s / edited by Gisela Bock and Pat Thane
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Voluntary motherhood 1900-1930: theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective; 2 Family welfare, which policy? Norway's road to child allowances; 3 The invisible child? The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900-1960s; 4 Models of equality for women: the case of state support for children in twentieth-century Britain
5 Visions of gender in the making of the British welfare state: the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906-19456 French feminism and maternity: theories and policies, 1890-1918; 7 Body politics: women, work and the politics of motherhood in France, 1920-1950; 8 Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain; 9 Motherhood as a political strategy: the role of the Italian women's movement in the creation of the Cassa Nazionale di Maternita; 10 Redefming maternity and paternity: gender, pronatalism and social policies in fascist Italy
11 Housework and motherhood: debates and policies in the women's movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic12 Antinatalism, maternity and paternity in National Socialist racism; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Family policy -- Europe -- History
Motherhood -- Government policy -- Europe -- History
Feminism -- Europe -- History
Welfare state -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Family policy
Feminism
Motherhood -- Government policy
Welfare state
Kvinnor -- historia -- Europa.
Familjepolitik -- Historia -- Europa.
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bock, Gisela.
Thane, Pat.
ISBN 9781135081607
1135081603