Introduction: "Mother Worlds"
Seth Koven
Sonya Michel; Chapter 1 The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State
1830-1930
Kathryn Kish Sklar; Chapter 2 Borderlands: Women
Voluntary Action
and Child Welfare in Britain
1840 to 1914
Seth Koven; Chapter 3 Social Mothers: The Bourgeois Women's Movement and German Welfare-State Formation
1890-1929
Christoph Sachße; Chapter 4 Woman's Work and the Early Welfare State in Germany: Legislators
Bureaucrats
and Clients before the First World War
Jean H. Quataert; Chapter 5 Depopulation and Race Suicide: Maternalism and Pronatalist Ideologies in France and the United States
Alisa Klaus; Chapter 6 The Power of Motherhood: Black and White Activist Women Redefine the "Political"
Eileen Boris; Chapter 7 Catholicism
Feminism
and the Politics of the Family during the late Third Republic
Susan Pedersen; Chapter 8 The Limits of Maternalism: Policies Toward American Wage-Earning Mothers During the Progressive Era
Sonya Michel; Chapter 9 "My Work Came Out of Agony and Grief": Mothers and the Making of the Sheppard-Towner Act
Molly Ladd-Taylor; Chapter 10 Women in the British Labour Part y and the Construction of State Welfare
1906-1939
Pat Thane; Chapter 11 A Revolution in the Family: The Challenge and Contradictions of Maternal Citizenship in Australia
Marilyn Lake; Chapter 12 Feminist Strategies and Gendered Discourses in Welfare States: Married Women's Right to Work in the United States and Sweden
Barbara Hobson;
