Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: maternal societies in the nineteenth century
  • "Moses saved from the waters" : the origins of the Society for Maternal Charity
  • "A grand and official institution" : the Society for Maternal Charity under Napoleon
  • Modeling maternal behavior: relations between the dames visiteuses and the pauvres meres indigentes
  • In the public interest: charitable associations and public-utility status
  • "Seconding the views of the government" : maternal societies and the state
  • Epilogue: toward a welfare state.