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What does maternalism mean?

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  1. The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.
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Market libertarianism continues to privatize the costs of reproduction, while maternalism reinforces the sexual division of reproductive labor.
The first, and most predictable, message addressed gender roles and signaled the pre-eminence of piety over power, submission over supremacy, and maternalism over masculinity.
Stressing the difference between men and women, this argument gave rise to the concept of maternalism.
The idea of being a chair is a gift for good behaviour by a party leader is 19th century paternalism, or maternalism.
This idea that being a committee chair is a gift for good behaviour by the party leader is 19th century paternalism, or maternalism.
Ten years later, sitting in a solicitor's office, my maternalism did indeed seem primitive to me, almost barbaric.

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