Maternalism Reconsidered

Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-466-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed ‘maternalism’. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical 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. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Marian Van Der

Plant, Rebecca Jo

Sanders, Nichole

Weintrob, Lori R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction

Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein

Chapter 2. Beyond Maternalism

Sonya Michel

Chapter 3. The State, the Women’s Movement and Maternity Insurance, 1900-1930: A Dutch Maternalism?

Marian van der Klein

Chapter 4. Mobilising Mothers in the Nation’s Service: Civic Culture in France’s Familial Welfare State, 1890-1914

Lori R. Weintrob

Chapter 5. Speaking on Behalf of Others:Dutch Social Workers and The Problem of Maternalist Condescension

Berteke Waaldijk

Chapter 6. ‘Respectable Citizens of Canada’: Gender and the Welfare State in the Great Depression

Lara Campbell

Chapter 7. The Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages: Patriotic Maternalists and Their Critics in the Interwar U.S.

Rebecca Jo Plant

Chpaptr 8. Protecting Mothers in Order to Protect Children: Maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress

Nichole Sanders

Chapter 9. Maternal and Child Welfare, State Policy and Women’s Philanthropic Activities in Brazil, 1930-45

Maria Lúcia Mott

Chapter 10. Maternalism in a Paternalist State: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy in Fascist Italy

Elisabetta Vezzosi

Chapter 11. Maternalism, Soviet-Style: The Working ‘Mothers with Many Children’ in Postwar Western Ukraine

Yoshie Mitsuyoshi

Chapter 12. Infant-Maternity Health and Nutritional Programmes in Argentina: Maternalism without Maternalists?

Alma Idiart

Chapter 13. Afterword: Maternalism Today

Rebecca Jo Plant

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Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Weintrob, Lori R.
Lori R. Weintrob is Professor of History at Wagner College in New York City. Her research focuses on immigration, gender and public policy in France and the United States.

Plant, Rebecca Jo
Rebecca Jo Plant is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (2010).

Sanders, Nichole
Nichole Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College in Virginia. She recently published Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State (2011).

Klein, Marian Van Der
Marian van der Klein is Senior Researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute. Her historical research focuses on gender, social history and welfare states, especially the impact of social policy on the socioeconomic position of women.

Marian van der Klein is Senior Researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute. Her historical research focuses on gender, social history and welfare states, especially the impact of social policy on the socioeconomic position of women.