Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Mother Worlds"
	"Mother Worlds" and the Politics of Motherliness
	The Origins of Maternalist Movements
	The Paradoxical Legacies of Maternalism
	Conclusions
	Notes
1.
The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930
	Welfare and Work: Two Sides of the Same Coin
	The Sociopolitical Origins of Middle-Class Women's Political Culture
	Class Themes in the Political Culture of Urban Men, 1870-1900
	Stalemate in Men's Political Culture
	The Flowering of Middle-Class Women's Political Culture, 1860-1900
	White Middle-Class Women and Men Create the Welfare State
	The End of an Era
	Notes
2.
Borderlands: Women, Voluntary Action, and Child Welfare in Britain, 1840 to 1914
	Introduction
	The "Useful Power" of Ladies: Mary Carpenter, Juvenile
Punishment, and the State
	Mary Ward, Civic Maternalism, and State Welfare
	Ward's Collectivist Road: From "Higher Criticism" toRecreation Schools
	Socialism and Voluntarism: Margaret McMillan in
South London
	Conclusions
	Notes
3.
Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation, 1890-1929
	Introduction
	Bourgeois Social Reform in Wilhelmine Germany
	The Bourgeois Women's Movement and the Concept of "Social Motherhood"
	Women, War, and Welfare: The Nationalization of the Women's Movement
	Welfare in Weimar: The Bureaucratization of Social Work
	Notes
4.
Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators, Bureaucrats, and Clients before the First World War
	Introduction
	Women's Work, Social Science, and Bureaucracy
	Social Science, Gendered Labor, and Welfare in Saxony: The Oberlausitz Weavers
	Notes
5.
Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States
	Notes
6. The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the "Political"
	The Historical and Political Underpinnings of "Motherhood" in the Early-Twentieth-Century Women's Movement
	Black Women Activists
		The National Association of Colored Women
		Into the Home
		Relationship to the Labor Question and Education
		Relationship to the Fight against Segregation and Racial Violence
	"$acred Motherhood:" White Women Reformers
and the Courts
	Conclusion
	Notes
7.
Catholicism, Feminism, and the Politics of the Family during the Late Third Republic
	Social Catholicism Confronts the Woman Question
	The Campaign for the Unwaged Mother's Allowance
	Family Policy and Women's Freedom: Conversations between Women
	Conclusion
	Notes
8.
The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era
	The Child-Care Movement
		The Day Nursery as Charity
		The Day Nursery as School and Clinic
		The Politics of Child Care
	The Movement for Mothers' Pensions
		Campaign by Coalition
		Motherhood as Service
		The Politics of Implementation
	Child Care or Mothers' Pensions?
	Notes
9.
"My Work Came Out of Agony and Grief": Mothers and the Making of the Sheppard-Towner Act
	Notes
10.
Women in the British Labour Party and the Construction of State Welfare, 1906-1939
	Introduction
	Origins and Composition of the Labour Women's Organizations
	The Ideas of the Labour Women
	The Labour Women and Marriage
	The British State and Social Welfare
	The Influence and Achievement of the Labour Women
		Local Housing
		Women, Labour, and Welfare in Lancashire Cotton Towns
		Women in New Industrial Towns
	Conclusion
	Notes
11.
A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia
	Notes
12.
Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States: Married Women's Right to Work in the United States and Sweden
	Alliances
		Women's Organizations
		Trade Unions
	Policy-Making Structures
	Discursive Resources
		Sweden
		The United States
	Conclusion
	Notes
Index
Contributors