Mothers of a New World

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ISBN: 9780415903141 | 0415903149
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Copyright: 6/25/1993

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Historians of Australia, 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.

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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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Mothers of a New World

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