Mothers of a New World

Informationen zum Autor Seth Koven, Sonya Michel Klappentext First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Provides a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and makes comparisons across societies and over time. The essays analyze tensions between reformers and clients arising from differences of class, race, ethnicity, and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Mother Worlds, Seth Koven, Sonya Michel; Chapter 1 The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930, Kathryn Kish Sklar; Chapter 2 Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action, and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840 to 1914, Seth Koven; Chapter 3 Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation, 1890-1929, Christoph Sachße; Chapter 4 Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Clients before the First World War, Jean H. Quataert; Chapter 5 Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States, Alisa Klaus; Chapter 6 The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the Political, Eileen Boris; Chapter 7 Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the late Third Republic, Susan Pedersen; Chapter 8 The Limits of Maternalism: Policies Toward American Wage-Earning Mothers During the Progressive Era, Sonya Michel; Chapter 9 My Work Came Out of Agony and Grief: Mothers and the Making of the Sheppard-Towner Act, Molly Ladd-Taylor; Chapter 10 Women in the British Labour Part y and the Construction of State Welfare, 1906-1939, Pat Thane; Chapter 11 A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia, Marilyn Lake; Chapter 12 Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States: Married Women's Right to Work in the United States and Sweden, Barbara Hobson;

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Seth Koven, Sonya Michel

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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
Provides a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and makes comparisons across societies and over time. The essays analyze tensions between reformers and clients arising from differences of class, race, ethnicity, and religion.

Inhalt
Introduction: Mother Worlds, Seth Koven, Sonya Michel; Chapter 1 The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930, Kathryn Kish Sklar; Chapter 2 Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action, and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840 to 1914, Seth Koven; Chapter 3 Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation, 1890-1929, Christoph Sachße; Chapter 4 Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Clients before the First World War, Jean H. Quataert; Chapter 5 Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States, Alisa Klaus; Chapter 6 The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the Political, Eileen Boris; Chapter 7 Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the late Third Republic, Susan Pedersen; Chapter 8 The Limits of Maternalism: Policies Toward American Wage-Earning Mothers During the Progressive Era, Sonya Michel; Chapter 9 My Work Came Out of Agony and Grief: Mothers and the Making of the Sheppard-Towner Act, Molly Ladd-Taylor; Chapter 10 Women in the British Labour Part y and the Construction of State Welfare, 1906-1939, Pat Thane; Chapter 11 A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia, Marilyn Lake; Chapter 12 Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States: Married Women's Right to Work in the United States and Sweden, Barbara Hobson;