caa a22 4500 386379580 CHVBK 20180307112035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900001293 doi S0008423900001293 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900001293 Jenson Jane Carleton University/Harvard University Paradigms and Political Discourse: Protective Legislation in France and the United States Before 1914 [Elektronische Daten] [Jane Jenson] This article examines the differences in pre-1914 France and the United States in two kinds of state policies regulating women's behaviour, those "protecting” the condition under which women participated in certain occupations and those providing infant and maternal protection. Those policies are examined to illuminate the argument that politics, including state policies, makes an important contribution to the maintenance and change of ongoing systems of social relations. Central to this argument is the notion that meaning systems around which actors constitute collective identities are a crucial analytic focus for understanding stability and change. At the end of the nineteenth century hegemonic societal paradigms, constructed out of the processes institutionalizing new social relations, emerged in France and the US. The French paradigm of "citizen-producer” and the American one of "specialized citizenship” had quite different implications for the patterns of gender relations embedded within them. These implications are visible in the treatment of women's work and maternity in these years of the emerging welfare state. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 235-258 0008-4239 22:2<235 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001293 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001293 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jenson Jane Carleton University/Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 235-258 0008-4239 22:2<235 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge