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Mother-work: women, child welfare, and the state, 1890 - 1930
In: Women in American history
Raising a baby the government way: mothers' letters to the Children's Bureau, 1915 - 1932
In: The Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender
Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century by Janet Golden
In: The Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 153-154
ISSN: 1941-3599
"Ravished by Some Moron": The Eugenic Origins of the Minnesota Psychopathic Personality Act of 1939
In: Journal of policy history: JPH, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 192-216
ISSN: 1528-4190
Abstract:Twenty U.S. states permit the indefinite detention of civilly committed sex offenders after the end of their prison sentences if their dangerousness is due to a "mental abnormality." This article explores the origins of one such law by examining its predecessor, the Minnesota Psychopathic Personality Act of 1939. Passed in the wake of a panic over sex crimes and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1940, Minnesota's psychopath statute extended a 1917 eugenics law providing for the compulsory civil commitment and institutionalization of "defectives" to persons alleged to have a psychopathic personality. Analyzing the 1917 and 1939 laws together shows how one state's psychopath statute had less to do with psychiatric authority than with the legal and administrative framework established by Progressive-era eugenics. From the 1910s until today, dubious claims about the ability of science to identify potential criminals legitimized politically popular, but constitutionally questionable, forms of administrative and social control.
Mothers' Rights are Human Rights: Reflections on Activism and History
In popular discourse today, mothers are often set in opposition to political and evenhuman rights. Conservatives see women's "right to choose" as an assault on the fetus's human rights. Feminists, recalling the equality vs. difference debate, stress the incompatibilityof organizing for mothers' rights and advancing women's rights more broadly. Advocates of "mothers' rights," at least in the U.S. and Canada, usually focuson issues—such as breastfeeding, child custody, and worklife balance—associated more with the quality of life for the middle class than with conventional human rights.This article argues for a new political discourse calling for mothers' human rights. It first reflects on two pivotal moments when the debate over mothers' rights and entitlements entered the mainstream: the call for motherhood endowment around 1920, and the demand for welfare rights fifty years later. Since the failure of those movements, the circumstances facing U.S. mothers today has become so dire that we cannot afford not to talk about mothers' human rights.
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Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880–1939. By S. J. Kleinberg. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. 272. $35.00 (cloth)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 170-172
ISSN: 1537-5404
Eugenics, Sterilisation and Modern Marriage in the USA: The Strange Career of Paul Popenoe
In: Gender & history, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 298-327
ISSN: 1468-0424
This article uses the fifty‐year career of Paul Popenoe as a lens through which to examine the North American eugenics movement. Popenoe, a leading advocate of compulsory sterilisation in the 1930s, became a celebrated marriage counsellor in the 1950s, famous for the Ladies' Home Journal feature 'Can This Marriage Be Saved?' The ease with which Popenoe metamorphosed from a champion of sterilisation to an expert on marriage was made possible by, and helps to reveal, deep ideological affinities and organisational connections between eugenics and marriage counselling in the United States.
Love, Work, and the Meanings of Motherhood
In: Journal of women's history, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 219-227
ISSN: 1527-2036
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Amanda AndersonTheir Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870. Marilynn Wood HillFallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945. Regina G. Kunzel
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 176-179
ISSN: 1545-6943
Mother-work: women, child welfare, and the state, 1890-1930
In: Women in American history
Toward Defining Maternalism in U.S. History
In: Journal of women's history, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 110-113
ISSN: 1527-2036
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1902. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 294 pp
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 27, S. 130-132
ISSN: 1471-6445
Women Workers and the Yale Strike
In: Feminist studies: FS, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 465
ISSN: 2153-3873