{"product_id":"sentimental-state-how-women-led-reform-built-the-american-welfare-state-9780820366050","title":"Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Sentimental State\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century \"culture of sentiment\" to generate political action in the Progressive Era. While eighteenth-century rationalism had relied upon the development of the analytic mind as the basis for acquiring truth, nineteenth-century sentimentalism hinged upon human emotional responses and the public's capacity to feel sympathy to establish morally based truth and build support for improving the welfare of women and children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSentimentalism marched right alongside women's steps into the public sphere of political action. The concerns over infant mortality and the \"fall\" of young women intertwined with sentimentalism to elicit public action in the formation of the American welfare state. The work of voluntary and paid female reformers during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries shaped what would become lasting collaborations between grassroots voluntary organizations and the national government. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWomen saw a social 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 both aided and policed women of child-bearing age at the turn of the twentieth century. Through an examination of these reform programs, Masarik demonstrates the strong connection between nineteenth-century sentimental culture and female political action, advocating government support for infant and maternal welfare, in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Garner Masarik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820366050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Garner Masarik is assistant professor of History at SUNY Brockport.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43769304285299,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_6fee5cb7-95f6-4292-b2a4-21a457775ffd.jpg?v=1757074524","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sentimental-state-how-women-led-reform-built-the-american-welfare-state-9780820366050","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}