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Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930(Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930(Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)


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Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. 

Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.



Table of Contents:
Introduction 1
Part 1
Mother-Work at Home
1. The Work of Mothering 17
Part Two
Mother-Work in the Community
2. "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On", Sentimental Maternalim and the National Congress of Mothers 43
3. "The Welfare of Mothers and Babies Is a Dignified Subject of Political Discussion", Progressive Materinalism and the Children's Bureau 74
4. "How Cruelly Unjust to Handicap All Women", Feminism and the Abandonment of Motherhood Rhetoric 104
Part Three
Mothers and the State
5. "Every Mother Has a Right", The Movement for Mothers' Pensions 135
6. "We Mothers Are So Glad the Day Has Come", Mothers' Work and the Sheppard-Towner Act 167
Conclusion 197
Index 207

About the Author :
Molly Ladd-Taylor is a professor of history at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century and a coeditor of Women, Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945.

Review :
"The essential guide to the politics of motherhood during a crucial period in the history of American women and the incipient welfare state."--Sonya Michel, editor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252064821
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
  • Sub Title: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0252064828
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 286 gr


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