ISBN:
9780415047746
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (277 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Maternity and Gender Policies : Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 18802-1950s
DDC:
305.42094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Voluntary motherhood 1900-1930: theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective; 2 Family welfare, which policy? Norway's road to child allowances; 3 The invisible child? The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900-1960s; 4 Models of equality for women: the case of state support for children in twentieth-century Britain
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Visions of gender in the making of the British welfare state: the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906-19456 French feminism and maternity: theories and policies, 1890-1918; 7 Body politics: women, work and the politics of motherhood in France, 1920-1950; 8 Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain; 9 Motherhood as a political strategy: the role of the Italian women's movement in the creation of the Cassa Nazionale di Maternita; 10 Redefming maternity and paternity: gender, pronatalism and social policies in fascist Italy
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Housework and motherhood: debates and policies in the women's movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic12 Antinatalism, maternity and paternity in National Socialist racism; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
