motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Klein, Marian van der > (ed.)
- Creator
- Sanders, Nichole > (ed.)
- Creator
- Weintrob, Lori R. > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Idiart, Alma
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 39 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, vrouwenbewegingen, sociale zekerheid, theorieën, historisch, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This volume reassesses maternalism by providing 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. It contains: 1. A new generation of scholars on maternalism / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein, 2. Maternalism and beyond / Sonya Michel, 3. The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? / Marian van der Klein, 4. Mobilizing mothers in the Nation's service: Civic culture in France's familial welfare state, 1890-1914, 5. Speaking on behalf of others: Dutch social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension / Berteke Waaldijk, 6. 'Respectable citizens of Canada': Gender, maternalism and the welfare state in the Great Depression / Lara Campbell, 7. The Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages: protect children: maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nicole Sanders, 9. Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lúcia Mott, 10. Maternalism in a paternalist state: the national Organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy, 11. Maternalism, Soviet-style: the working mothers with many children in post-war Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshui, 12. The origins and transformations of the infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina / Alma Idiart, 13. Maternalism today / Rebecca Jo Plant.