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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452001103321

Titolo

Maternalism reconsidered [[electronic resource] ] : motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century / / edited by Marian van der Klein ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49662-2

9786613591852

0-85745-467-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; v. 20

Altri autori (Persone)

KleinMarian van der

Disciplina

306.874/3

Soggetti

Motherhood - History - 20th century

Mothers - History - 20th century

Social policy - History - 20th century

Public welfare - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein -- Beyond maternalism / Sonya Michel -- The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? / Marian van der Klein -- Mobilising mothers in the nation's service : civic culture in France's familial welfare state, 1890-1914 / Lori R. Weintrob -- Speaking on behalf of others : Dutch social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension / Berteke Waaldijk -- 'Respectable citizens of Canada' : gender and the welfare state in the Great Depression / Lara Campbell -- The gold star mothers pilgrimages : patriotic maternalists and their critics in the interwar U.S. / Rebecca Jo Plant -- Protecting mothers in order to protect children : maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nichole Sanders -- Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lucia Mott -- Maternalism in a paternalist state : the national organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy / Elisabetta Vezzosi -- Maternalism, Soviet-style : the



working 'mothers with many children' in postwar Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshi -- Infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina : maternalism without maternalists? / Alma Idiart -- Afterword : maternalism today / Rebecca Jo Plant.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNISA996328039603316

Titolo

Power relations in black lives : reading African American literature and culture with Bourdieu and Elias / / Christa Buschendorf (editor)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-8394-3660-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations

Collana

American Culture Studies ; 17

Classificazione

HU 1728

Disciplina

155.43

Soggetti

Racism in literature

African Americans - Politics and government

African Americans - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    7  Preface    9  Introduction    11  Satin-Legs Smith and a Mississippi Mother    35  Intellectual Disposition and Bodily Emotion    55  "You have to leave home to find home"    77  (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners?    101  "You People Almost Had Me Hating You Because of the Color of



Your Skin"    123  Black Women's Business    145  "What's the Position You Hold?"    165  "Decolorized for Popular Appeal"    183  Understanding Ferguson    205  Transformations of Oppression    237  Introducing Disagreement    257  Contributors    281

Sommario/riassunto

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin

Besprochen in:  Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit, Rundbrief, 1 (2018)