Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century: 20 (International Studies in Social History, 20) - Hardcover

"A welcome addition to the literature on gender and social policy, this anthology addresses critical issues regarding women and the welfare state. Recognizing that maternalism is more diverse and nuanced than the simplification initially posed as a critique of the paternalist welfare state, the editors explore ways in which women's circumstances varied globally during the 20th century through chapters on the US, France, Fascist Italy, the Netherlands, Soviet-era Ukraine, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico...Highly Recommended." - Choice "One of the most striking features of this excellent collection of essays is thedurability of maternalism - as an ideology, a political strategy and as a practice of social policy and legislation. This anthology revisits and also updates the rich scholarship on the influence of maternalism on welfare and social policy, which was produced mainly during the early 1990s." - Gender & History

Marian van der Klein is Senior Researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute. Her research focuses on gender, social history, and welfare states, especially the impact of social policy on the socio-economic position of women. Her dissertation, "Risks of Labor, Women and Social Insurance, 1890-1940," explores the Dutch case in an international context. Rebecca Jo Plant is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego. She has published articles on gender history and the history of psychiatry in the twentieth-century United States, and most recently, Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (University of Chicago Press 2010). Nichole Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Her research focuses on issues of gender, state formation, and economic development. She has recently published Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State, 1937 to 1958 (Pennsylvania State University Press 2011). Lori R. Weintrob is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Wagner College in New York City. Her research on French civil society, gender, and public policy has been published in the collected volumes Democratie, Solidarite et Mutualite: Autour de la loi de 1898 (Economica 1999) and Le Social dans la Ville en France et en Europe, 1750-1914 (Editions de l'Atelier 1996).