Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century 0857454676, 9780857454676

Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century 9780857454676

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implem

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Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History 9781400824748, 1400824745

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor expl

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Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 9780824863883

Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. At the extreme, they are stereot

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Scandal, social policy and social welfare 9781847421326

Scandals do not just happen. They are made. They are constructed out of such everyday tragedies as the small carelessnes

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The Twentieth-Century Welfare State 9781350362710

The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Britain. Drawing on much recent

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Sport, Welfare and Social Policy in the European Union 9780815360513

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A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century 9781849664769, 9781849664691

Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scie

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Welfare Rights and Social Policy 9781317904731, 9780130404626

Welfare Rights and Social Policy provides an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which

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The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden 9781501704093

Sweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the co

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Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy 9781442685024

The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in

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