Ulla Wikander is an associate professor of economic history at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Alice Kessler-Harris is a professor of history and the director of women¹s studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. N.J. Jane Lewis is a professor of social policy at the London School of Economics.

"Superb... Illuminates the ways that motherhood as cultural role, public discourse, political strategy, and lived experience intersected with welfare state development, labor market expansion, and definitions of citizenship." -- Eileen Boris, authorof Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States

Ulla Wikander is an associate professor of economic history at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Alice Kessler-Harris is a professor of history and the director of women¹s studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. N.J. Jane Lewis is a professor of social policy at the London School of Economics.

"Superb... Illuminates the ways that motherhood as cultural role, public discourse, political strategy, and lived experience intersected with welfare state development, labor market expansion, and definitions of citizenship." -- Eileen Boris, authorof Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States