Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

"Ranging from Gold Star Mothers through natural childbirth, Mom makes the case for treating the decades from the 1920s through the early '60s as one period of sweeping change. This is essential reading for all historians who are interested in the gender politics of modern America." - Sonya Michel, coeditor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States.

Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

"Ranging from Gold Star Mothers through natural childbirth, Mom makes the case for treating the decades from the 1920s through the early '60s as one period of sweeping change. This is essential reading for all historians who are interested in the gender politics of modern America." - Sonya Michel, coeditor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States.

Rebecca Jo Plant is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

"Ranging from Gold Star Mothers through natural childbirth, Mom makes the case for treating the decades from the 1920s through the early '60s as one period of sweeping change. This is essential reading for all historians who are interested in the gender politics of modern America." - Sonya Michel, coeditor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States.