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Cover of Maternity and Gender Policies

Maternity and Gender Policies Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s–1950s

  • Published: 12 Nov 2012
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203059913
  • Print ISBN: 9781138154551
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203059913

This collection sets out to analyze the influence of women's movements on the emergence of Europe's welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s, and the limits of that influence. It compares the women's movements - and social policies concerning women - in the dictatorships of Italy, Germany and Spain with the democracies in Britain, France and Scandinavia. It throws new lights on feminism, especially in the inter-war period.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Editors’ introduction By Gisela Bock; Pat Thane
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    Voluntary motherhood 1900–1930: theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective By Ida Blom
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    Family welfare, which policy? Norway’s road to child allowances By Anne-Lise Seip; Hilde Ibsen
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    The invisible child? The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900–1960s By Ann-Sofie Ohlander
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    Models of equality for women: the case of state support for children in twentieth-century Britain By Jane Lewis
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    Visions of gender in the making of the British welfare state: the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906–1945 By Pat Thane
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    French feminism and maternity: theories and policies 1890–1918 By Anne Cova
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    Body politics: women, work and the politics of motherhood in France, 1920–1950 By Karen Offen
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    Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco’s Spain By Mary Nash
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    Motherhood as a political strategy: the role of the Italian women’s movement in the creation of the Cassa Nazionale di Maternità By Annarita Buttafuoco
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    Redefining maternity and paternity: gender, pronatalism and social policies in fascist Italy By Chiara Saraceno
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    Housework and motherhood: debates and policies in the women’s movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic By Irene Stoehr
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    Antinatalism, maternity and paternity in National Socialist racism By Gisela Boch
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    Back Matter