The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in England, 1900-1939

by Jane Lewis

During the early twentieth century maternal and child welfare became a national issue for the first time. The child and maternal welfare movement had a significant material and ideological effect on women and it is therefore important to understand the mechanisms which structured and controlled it.

Originally published in 1980, The Politics of Motherhood asks why child and maternal welfare policy took the particular form that it did during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032750723
• ISBN13: 9781032750729
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages