Maternity and Gender Policies

Abstract

1. Voluntary motherhood 1900-1930 - theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective, Ida Blom 2. Family welfare, which policy? - Norway's road to child allowances, Anne-Lise Seip and Hilde Ibsen 3. The invisible child? - The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900-1960s, Anne-Sofie Ohlander 4. Models of equality for women - the case of state support for children in 20th-century Britain, Jane Lewis 5. Visions of gender in the making of the British welfare state - the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906-1945, Pat Thane 6. French feminism and maternity - theories and policies 1890-1918, Anne Cova 7. Body politics - women, work and the politics of motherhood in France, 1920-1950, Karen Offen 8. Pro-natalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain, Mary Nash 9. Motherhood as a political strategy - the role of the Italian women's movement in the creation to the Cassa Nazionale di Maternita, Annarita Buttafuoco 10. Redefining maternity and paternity - gender, pro-natalism and social policies in fascist Italy, Chiara Saraceno 11. Housework and motherhood - debates and policies in the women's movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, Irene Stoehr 12. Anti-natalism, maternity and paternity in National Socialist racism, Gisela Bock.