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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Broder, Sherri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Family social work > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Child welfare > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Poor families > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Working class families > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Service social familial > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Familles pauvres > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Familles ouvrières > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Child welfare
Family social work
Poor families
Working class families
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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