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

Anna M. Peterson is Assistant Professor of History at Luther College, USA. She has published a number of articles on the history of women's rights in Norway. In 2016 she became the first historian outside of Norway to receive the Norwegian Historical Association's award for the most innovative contribution to their journal, the Journal of Norwegian History.

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.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- Index.