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Author/Creator:Masarik, Elizabeth Garner, author.
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Title:The Sentimental State : How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State / Elizabeth Garner Masarik.
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ISBN:9780820366081
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Publication:Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]
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Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
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Copyright notice date: ©[2024]
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Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations
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Links:Online book
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Summary:"This book shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century "culture of sentiment" to generate political action in the Progressive Era. Sentimentalism marched right alongside women's step into the public sphere of political action. The concerns over infant mortality and the "fall" of young women interconnected with sentimentalism to elicit public action in the formation of the American welfare state. Elements of the associational state were built by the voluntary and paid work of female reformers working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Women saw a need, filled it, and cobbled together a network of voluntary organizations that tapped state funding and support when available. Their work provided safeguards for women and children and created a network of female-oriented programs that policed and aided women of child-bearing age at the turn of the twentieth century. This book demonstrates the strength of the connection between the nineteenth century sentimental culture and female political action, defined as government support for infant and maternal welfare, in the twentieth century"--
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Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
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Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Subjects: Public welfare--United States--History.
Women social reformers--United States--History.
Women--Political activity--United States--History.
Women--United States--Social conditions.
Women social reformers
Women--Social conditions
Women--Political activity
Social policy
Public welfare
United States--Social policy.
United States
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Genre/Form:History
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Also listed under:Project Muse. distributor
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17129151