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Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 18802-1950s
Author(s): Gisela Bock (Editor), Patricia Thane
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 11 Dec. 2016
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138154555
- ISBN-13: 9781138154551
Book Description
This collection sets out to analyze the influence of women’s movements on the emergence of Europe’s welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s, and the limits of that influence. It compares the women’s movements – and social policies concerning women – in the dictatorships of Italy, Germany and Spain with the democracies in Britain, France and Scandinavia. It throws new lights on feminism, especially in the inter-war period.
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This important collection is the first to analyse the influence of women’s movements on the emergence of Europe’s welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s and the limits of that influence. It compares the women’s movements and social policies concerning women in the dictatorships of Italy, Germany and Spain with the democracies in Britain, France and Scandinavia and throws new light on feminism, especially in the inter-war period, making a significant contribution to women’s studies.
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Gisela Bock, Pat Thane
