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And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 (Women & health)

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On this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of private and non-private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their remedy.
Focusing at 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 as of late. Even as 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 used to be brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least give a boost to, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, irrespective of the time frame, 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 at 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.

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