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- catalog abstract "In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment. Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance. This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood.".
- catalog contributor b4177904.
- catalog coverage "Cleveland (Ohio) Social policy.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment. Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance. This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-178) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 183 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0814206026 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814206034 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)".
- catalog isPartOf "Women & health".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Cleveland (Ohio) Social policy.".
- catalog spatial "Cleveland (Ohio)".
- catalog spatial "Ohio Cleveland".
- catalog spatial "Ohio".
- catalog spatial "Ohio.".
- catalog subject "1995 E-481".
- catalog subject "362.83/928/0977132 20".
- catalog subject "HV700.5 .M66 1993".
- catalog subject "Hospitals, Maternity Cleveland (Ohio) History.".
- catalog subject "Hospitals, Maternity Ohio History.".
- catalog subject "Illegitimacy Cleveland (Ohio) History.".
- catalog subject "Illegitimacy Ohio History.".
- catalog subject "Public Policy Cleveland (Ohio)".
- catalog subject "Public Policy Ohio.".
- catalog subject "Unmarried mothers Services for Ohio Cleveland History.".
- catalog subject "WQ 27 AO3 M8s 1993".
- catalog title "And sin no more : social policy and unwed mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 / Marian J. Morton.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".