Introduction / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein -- Beyond maternalism / Sonya Michel -- The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? / Marian van der Klein -- Mobilising mothers in the nation's service : civic culture in France's familial welfare state, 1890-1914 / Lori R. Weintrob -- Speaking on behalf of others : Dutch social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension / Berteke Waaldijk -- 'Respectable citizens of Canada' : gender and the welfare state in the Great Depression / Lara Campbell -- The gold star mothers pilgrimages : patriotic maternalists and their critics in the interwar U.S. / Rebecca Jo Plant -- Protecting mothers in order to protect children : maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nichole Sanders -- Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lucia Mott -- Maternalism in a paternalist state : the national organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy / Elisabetta Vezzosi -- Maternalism, Soviet-style : the working 'mothers with many children' in postwar Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshi -- Infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina : maternalism without maternalists? / Alma Idiart -- Afterword : maternalism today / Rebecca Jo Plant.