Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France

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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social ref...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schafer, Sylvia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Paternalism.
Moral conditions.
Family policy.
Child welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Paternalisme > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Politique familiale > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Paternalism > France > History > 19th century.
Family policy > France > History > 19th century.
Child welfare > France > History > 19th century.
France.
France > Moral conditions > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in Notes
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Long History of Paternal Power
  • 2. Protection, the State, and the Laws of 1874
  • 3. The Divestiture of Paternal Authority and the Law of 1889
  • Introduction
  • 4. Setting The Wheels In Motion
  • 5. Investigation
  • 6. Judgment
  • Introduction
  • 7. Defining A Population, Defining An Administration
  • 8. Experiments in Placement, 1881-1889
  • 9. The Assimilation of the Enfants Moralement Abandonnes
  • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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