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Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children : negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /

"In late Victorian America, few issues held the public's attention more closely than the allegedly unnatural family life of the urban poor. In Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children, Sherri Broder brings new insight to the powerful depictions of the urban poor that circulated in new...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broder, Sherri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • 2. Informing the "Cruelty": Laboring Communities and Reform Intervention
  • 3. Dens of Iniquities: Laboring Families and Reform Intervention
  • 4. Illegitimate Mothers, Redemptive Maternity
  • 5. Murderous Mothers and Mercenary Baby Farmers?