The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917 1942
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The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917 1942

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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 cla...more
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Published November 14th 1996 by Cornell University Press (first published August 15th 1995)
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