Maternalism Reconsidered

Author : Marian van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori R. Weintrob
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454676

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Maternalism Reconsidered by Marian van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori R. Weintrob Pdf

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed 'maternalism'. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.

Author : Marianne van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori Robin Weintrob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 0857454668

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Maternalism Reconsidered by Marianne van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori Robin Weintrob Pdf

Author : Marianne van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori Robin Weintrob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 0857454668

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Maternalism Reconsidered by Marianne van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori Robin Weintrob Pdf

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists - a phenomenon that scholars have since termed 'maternalism'. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.

Author : Marian van der Klein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857454669

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Maternalism Reconsidered by Marian van der Klein Pdf

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists - a phenomenon that scholars have since termed 'maternalism'. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.

Author : Rebecca Jo Plant,Yoshie Mitsuyoshi,Lara Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:428093635

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Workshop Maternalism Reconsidered by Rebecca Jo Plant,Yoshie Mitsuyoshi,Lara Campbell Pdf

Author : Richard Cleminson
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789633860298

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Catholicism, Race and Empire by Richard Cleminson Pdf

This monograph places the science and ideology of eugenics in early twentieth century Portugal in the context of manifestations in other countries in the same period. The author argues that three factors limited the impact of eugenics in Portugal: a low level of institutionalization, opposition from Catholics and the conservative nature of the Salazar regime. In Portugal the eugenic science and movement were confined to three expressions: individualized studies on mental health, often from a 'biotypological' perspective; a particular stance on racial miscegenation in the context of the substantial Portuguese colonial empire; and a diffuse model of social hygiene, maternity care and puericulture.

Author : Shaul Bar-Haim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812299649

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The Maternalists by Shaul Bar-Haim Pdf

The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project. After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers, educators, and policy makers became increasingly interested in the contemporary turn being made in psychoanalytic theory toward the role of motherhood in child development. These public figures used new notions of the "maternal" to criticize modern European culture, and especially its patriarchal domestic structure. This strand of thought was pioneered by figures who were well placed to disseminate their ideas into the higher echelons of British culture, education, and medical care. Figures such as the anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Geza Róheim, and the psychiatrist Ian Suttie—to mention only a few of the "maternalists" discussed in the book—used psychoanalytic vocabulary to promote both imagined perceptions of motherhood and their idea of the "real" essence of the "maternal." In the 1930s, as European fascism took hold, the "maternal" became a cultural discourse of both collective social anxieties and fantasies, as well as a central concept in many strands of radical, and even utopian, political thinking. During the Second World War, and even more so in the postwar era, psychoanalysts such as D. W. Winnicott and Michael Balint responded to the horrors of the war by drawing on interwar maternalistic thought, making a demand to "maternalize" British society, and providing postwar Britain with a new political idiom for defining the welfare state as a project of collective care.

Author : Carla Pascoe Leahy,Petra Bueskens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030202675

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Australian Mothering by Carla Pascoe Leahy,Petra Bueskens Pdf

This collection defines the field of maternal studies in Australia for the first time. Leading motherhood researchers explore how mothering has evolved across Australian history as well as the joys and challenges of being a mother today. The contributors cover pregnancy, birth, relationships, childcare, domestic violence, time use, work, welfare, policy and psychology, from a diverse range of maternal perspectives. Utilising a matricentric feminist framework, Australian Mothering foregrounds the experiences, emotions and perspectives of mothers to better understand how Australian motherhood has developed historically and contemporaneously. Drawing upon their combined sociological and historical expertise, Bueskens and Pascoe Leahy have carefully curated a collection that presents compelling research on past and present perspectives on maternity in Australia, which will be relevant to researchers, advocates and policy makers interested in the changing role of mothers in Australian society.

Author : Anna M. Peterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319754819

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Maternity Policy and the Making of the Norwegian Welfare State, 1880-1940 by Anna M. Peterson Pdf

This book traces women’s influence on maternity policy in Norway from 1880-1940. Maternity policies, including maternity leave, midwifery services and public assistance for mothers, were some of the first welfare policies enacted in Norway. Feminists, midwives, and working women participated in their creation and helped transform maternity policies from a restriction to a benefit. Situating Norway within the larger European context, the book contributes to discussions of Scandinavian welfare state development and further untangles the relationship between social policy and gender equality. The study of poor, rural women alongside urban middle-class feminists is rooted in an inclusive archival source base that speaks to the interplay between local and national welfare officials and recipients, the development and implementation of laws in diverse settings, the divergent effects maternity policies had on women, and women’s varied response.

Author : Alejandra Ramm,Jasmine Gideon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030214029

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Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America by Alejandra Ramm,Jasmine Gideon Pdf

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood and maternalism—the ways in which motherhood becomes a public policy issue. As maternalism embraces and enhances gender differences, it has been criticized for deepening gender inequalities. Yet invoking motherhood continues to offer an effective strategy for advancing women’s living conditions and rights, and for women themselves to be present in the public sphere. In analyzing these important relationships, the contributors to this volume discuss maternal health, sexual and reproductive rights, labor programs, paid employment, women miners’ unionization, housing policies, environmental suffering, and LGBTQ intimate partner violence.

Author : Elizabeth L. Block
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262045841

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Dressing Up by Elizabeth L. Block Pdf

How wealthy American women--as consumers and as influencers--helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated. French fashion of the late nineteenth century is known for its allure, its ineffable chic--think of John Singer Sargent's Madame X and her scandalously slipping strap. For Parisian couturiers and their American customers, it was also serious business. In Dressing Up, Elizabeth Block examines the couturiers' influential clientele--wealthy American women who bolstered the French fashion industry with a steady stream of orders from the United States. Countering the usual narrative of the designer as solo creative genius, Block shows that these women--as high-volume customers and as pre-Internet influencers--were active participants in the era's transnational fashion system. Block describes the arrival of nouveau riche Americans on the French fashion scene, joining European royalty, French socialites, and famous actresses on the client rosters of the best fashion houses--Charles Frederick Worth, Doucet, and Félix, among others. She considers the mutual dependence of couture and coiffure; the participation of couturiers in international expositions (with mixed financial results); the distinctive shopping practices of American women, which ranged from extensive transatlantic travel to quick trips downtown to the department store; the performance of conspicuous consumption at balls and soirées; the impact of American tariffs on the French fashion industry; and the emergence of smuggling, theft, and illicit copying of French fashions in the American market as the middle class emulated the preferences of the rich. Lavishly illustrated, with vibrant images of dresses, portraits, and fashion plates, Dressing Up reveals the power of American women in French couture. Winner of the Aileen Ribeiro Grant of the Association of Dress Historians; an Association for Art History grant; and a Pasold Research Fund grant.

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Indians
ISBN : 9780826355638

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The Women's National Indian Association by Valerie Sherer Mathes Pdf

Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.

Author : Esther Möller,Johannes Paulmann,Katharina Stornig
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030446307

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Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century by Esther Möller,Johannes Paulmann,Katharina Stornig Pdf

“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of nation-building, and a political history that goes beyond nations.” - Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia This volume discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They give prominence to the beneficiaries of aid and their use of humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and non-Western settings.

Author : Gro Hagemann
Publisher : Edizioni Plus
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788884924650

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Reciprocity and Redistribution by Gro Hagemann Pdf

Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469616063

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Reproducing the British Caribbean by Juanita De Barros Pdf

This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation. Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros shows that local physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and the impoverished mothers who were the targets of this official concern helped shape and implement efforts to ensure the health and reproduction of Caribbean populations in the decades before independence.