Maternity Policy and the Making of the Norwegian Welfare State, 1880-1940

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “What Nature Itself Demands:” The Development of Maternity Legislation at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 “For the Health of the People:” Public Health and the Compensation of Maternity Leave in the 1910s

Chapter 4 “Protecting Mothers and Children:” The Castbergian Children’s Laws and Maternity Assistance for Single Mothers in the 1910s

Chapter 5 “Getting the Most Money Possible:” Women’s Responses to the Implementation of Maternity Laws, 1916–1930

Chapter 6 “Mothers’ Freedom Is the Key to Women’s Emancipation:” Feminist Efforts to Expand Maternity Legislation in the Interwar Period