Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States - Paperback

by Seth Koven (Editor), Sonya Michel (Editor)

Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time.

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This book explores the historical evolution of such claims, and their relationship to the rise of women's movements and the emergence of welfare states in Western industrializing countries at the turn of the 19th century.