Author: Molly Ladd-Taylor
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.
Mother-Work
Author: Molly Ladd-Taylor
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.
Indian National Congress Since Independence
Author: J. C. Johari
Publisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 9788183820509
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Presidential addresses delivered by various personalities of Indian National Congress.
Publisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 9788183820509
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Presidential addresses delivered by various personalities of Indian National Congress.
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Author: Theda Skocpol
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention of the National Congress of Mothers ... (Issued with Report of 2d Convention and Paged Consecutively with that Report)
Author: National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Creating the New Woman
Author: Judith N. McArthur
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The coming woman in politics"--Domestic revolutionaries -- Every mother's child -- Cities of women -- "I wish my mother had a vote"--"These piping times of victory" -- Conclusion : gender and public cultures
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The coming woman in politics"--Domestic revolutionaries -- Every mother's child -- Cities of women -- "I wish my mother had a vote"--"These piping times of victory" -- Conclusion : gender and public cultures
Publications Proscribed by the Government of India
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Politics of the Pta
Author: Charlene K. Haar
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412845342
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Provides an inside view of the PTA and its mission, giving background information, political agendas, and insight into its future.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412845342
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Provides an inside view of the PTA and its mission, giving background information, political agendas, and insight into its future.
The Missing Middle
Author: Theda Skocpol
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321135
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321135
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.
The Child
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Fundamentals of Gandhism
Author: Anil Dutta Mishra
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170996064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170996064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description