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  • noun A supporter of maternalism.

Etymologies

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maternal +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Not only did women make up a significant proportion of social security beneficiaries as wives and daughters of male workers, they were also direct beneficiaries of some public services (health, education) as well as being targets of population control programmes as well as so-called maternalist programmes aimed at mothers and their children.

    MRZine.org 2009

  • Paavo Ojala – you justify big maternalist government with two exapmles of freedoms that you would like to take from other people.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wherein the Left is Faced with the Uncomfortable Fact that Individuals are Different 2009

  • This most rigid maternalist conception of women's citizenship role demanded that the Moral Mother be restored to her pre-war glory in the private sphere as a matter of national identity.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Given the historical association of the raising of arms with national citizenship rights, can their experiences illuminate the extent to which the parameters of women's citizenship had been retheorised beyond pre-war maternalist conceptions?

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • The strong maternalist/nationalist foundations of Parren's feminism unquestionably helped to establish the feminist project in Greece, albeit among a small circle, at a time when Greece was still very much the traditional society of the pre-revolutionary era.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • As discussed earlier, Metaxas's hyper-maternalist conceptions of women's citizenship role, while narrowly inscribed, elevated motherhood to a national priority and, by extension, boosted their cultural status and the standards of health care.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • It has less in common with radical and maternalist feminisms for these very reasons.

    Feminist Political Philosophy McAfee, Noëlle 2009

  • The maternalist tactic has largely been to flip the hierarchy, to claim that the work of the household is more meaningful and sustaining than the work of the polis.

    Feminist Political Philosophy McAfee, Noëlle 2009

  • Against these trends, the maternalist thinkers -- Jane Addams, Josephine Baker, Julia Lathrop, Florence Kelley, and Frances Kellor, among several others -- devised a highly original ideological synthesis to address the threat that industrialization posed to the working class.

    'Grand New Party: How Republicans can Win the Working Class and Save The American Dream' 2008

  • Until the cataclysmic divestiture of the 1980s, Ma Bell was perhaps the ultimate maternalist mega-employer.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

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