LEADER 04516nam 22006255 450 001 996248162403316 005 20221108024716.0 010 $a1-5017-2886-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501728860 035 $a(CKB)3400000000084959 035 $a(dli)HEB02052 035 $a(OCoLC)1078834668 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69801 035 $a(DE-B1597)515256 035 $a(OCoLC)1091692880 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501728860 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011513766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31191467 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31191467 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000084959 100 $a20190326d2018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Wages of Motherhood $eInequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 /$fGwendolyn Mink 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 198 p. ) 311 0 $a0-8014-9534-2 311 0 $a0-8014-2234-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContent --$tPREFACE --$tPART ONE --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Promise of Motherhood: Maternalist Social Policy between the Wars --$tCHAPTER TWO. Wages for Motherhood: Mothers' Pensions and Cultural Reform --$tCHAPTER THREE. ''A Baby Saved Is a Citizen Gained": Infancy Protection and Maternal Reform --$tPART TWO --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Schooling for Motherhood: Woman's Role and ''American" Culture in the Curriculum --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Cultural Reform across the Color Line: Maternalists and the Politics of Educational Provision --$tPART THREE --$tCHAPTER SIX. Maternalism in the New Deal Welfare State: Women's Dependency, Racial Inequality, and the Icon of Welfare Motherhood --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Wage Earning or Motherhood: Maternalist Labor Policy during World War II --$tAFTERWORD. Postmaternalist Welfare Politics --$tINDEX 330 $aEntering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state.Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how AngloAmerican women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement.According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent-and invidious-policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939 606 $aPoor women$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aMotherhood$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aMaternal and infant welfare$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y1918-1945 615 0$aNew Deal, 1933-1939. 615 0$aPoor women$xGovernment policy 615 0$aMotherhood$xGovernment policy 615 0$aMaternal and infant welfare$xGovernment policy 676 $a362.83/0973 700 $aMink$b Gwendolyn$01012980 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248162403316 996 $aThe Wages of Motherhood$92353911 997 $aUNISA