Mothers of a New World

Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

By: Seth Koven (Editor), Sonya Michel (Editor)

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In Mothers of a New World , historians of Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time. The essays analyze tensions between reformers and clients arising from differences of class, race, ethnicity, and religion. Moving to the level of state politics, they examine the outcomes of maternalist initiatives within specific political contexts including conservative and social democratic regimes; limited, decentralized, and strong centralized states; and highly religious and secular cultures. Though the matenalists' motherworld' was never fully realized, their vision helped shape modern welfare states throughout the West. This collection will compel readers to revise their accounts of welfare state development by moving issues of gender and the work of female reformers from the margins to the centre.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Mother Worlds"	p. 1
The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930	p. 43
Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action, and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840 to 1914	p. 94
Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation, 1890-1929	p. 136
Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Clients before the First World War	p. 159
Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States	p. 188
The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the "Political"	p. 213
Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the Late Third Republic	p. 246
The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era	p. 277
"My Work Came Out of Agony and Grief": Mothers and the Making of the Sheppard-Towner Act	p. 321
Women in the British Labour Party and the Construction of State Welfare, 1906-1939	p. 343
A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia	p. 378
Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States: Married Women's Right to Work in the United States and Sweden	p. 396
Index	p. 431
Contributors	p. 445
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