Gisela Bock, Pat Thane

List of tables and figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1Voluntary motherhood 1900-1930: theories and politics of a Norwegian feminist in an international perspective, Ida Blom; 2Family welfare, which policy? Norway's road to child allowances, Anne-Lise Seip and Hilde Ibsen; 3The invisible child? The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in Sweden, 1900-1960s, Ann-Sofie Ohlander; 4Models of equality for women: the case of state support for children in twentieth-century Britain, Jane Lewis; 5Visions of gender in the making of the British welfare state: the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906-1945, Pat Thane; 6French feminism and maternity: theories and policies, 1890-1918, Anne Cova; 7Body politics: women, work and the politics of motherhood in France, 1920-1950, Karen Offen; 8Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain, Mary Nash; 9Motherhood as a political strategy: the role of the Italian women's movement in the creation of the Cassa Nazionale di Maternità, Annarita Buttafuoco; 10Redefining maternity and paternity: gender, pronatalism and social policies in fascist Italy, Chiara Saraceno; 11Housework and motherhood: debates and policies in the women's movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, Irene Stoehr; 12Antinatalism, maternity and paternity in National Socialist racism, Gisela Bock; Index;