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Mother-Work: Child and the Women, State, 1890-1930 . Welfare, By Molly Urbana: of Illinois Ladd-Taylor. Press, 1994, 232 $39.95 University pp., (hardbound). In this excellent Kish Linda book, Sklar, Ladd-Taylor joins Kathryn and others in the of female efforts activists who Gordon, documenting the to state assume its share of for the well- pressed responsibility of women and children. In of these women historians’ being light much of the social welfare that social workers work, superb history learned even 10 seems bound and dull. years ago gender defines mother-work as &dquo;women’s work of Ladd-Taylor unpaid and care and describes the reproduction giving&dquo; (p. 1) appalling conditions that the of motherhood&dquo; in the precipitated &dquo;politicization of this For of all children and 20% of early part century. example, 10% children of color did not survive and 1 woman in 30 could infancy, to die in childbirth. Women’s fear of death and the expect &dquo;private of children in crowded tenements and isolated rural agonies&dquo; raising with little medical information or fueled a services, areas, &dquo;great for state action for mothers and their children. This public eagerness&dquo; of activism women was for three wellspring by responsible major the of mothers’ forerunners (the
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Jul 1, 1997
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