 | The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942 Subjects: Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy -- United States; Motherhood -- Government policy -- United States; Poor women -- Government policy -- United States; New Deal 1933–39; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918–1945; Entering 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. Gwendolyn Mink is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 , also from Cornell. |
