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The wages of motherhood : inequality in the welfare state, 1917-1942 /
Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The wages of motherhood : |b inequality in the welfare state, 1917-1942 / |c Gwendolyn Mink. |
| 260 | |a Ithaca, NY : |b Cornell University Press, |c 1995. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a The promise of Motherhood: maternalist social policy between the wars -- Wages for Motherhood: Mothers' pensions and cultural reform -- "A baby saved is a citizen gained": infancy protection and maternal reform -- Schooling for Motherhood: woman's role and "American" culture in the curriculum -- Cultural reform across the color line: maternalists and the politics of educational provision -- Maternalism in the New Deal Welfare State: women's dependency, racial inequality, and the Icon of welfare Motherhood -- Wage earning or Motherhood: maternalist Labor policy during World Warr II -- Post maternalist welfare politics. | |
| 520 | |a Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how Anglo American women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how Anglo-American women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent--and invidious--policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today." -- Publisher's website | ||
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