Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
International Perspectives
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
320 pages
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© 1991
This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Child Welfare and Social Action - Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey
I. GENDER AND 'DELINQUENCY'
1. Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945 - Tamara Myers
2. 'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds - J. A. Brown, M. Burman and K. Tisdall
II. CHILD EMIGRATION
3. Fairbridge Child Migrants - Geoffrey Sherington
4. Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960 - Patrick A. Dunae
5. Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea - Shurlee Swain
6. Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945 - Kathleen Paul
III. RETHINKING PHILANTHROPY
7. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children - Lydia D. Murdoch
8. The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland - John Stewart
9. 'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children - Lynn Abrams
IV. 'WELFARE STATES' AND CHILD WELFARE
10. 'Fixing' Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945 - Molly Ladd-Taylor
11. A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain - Julie Grier
12. Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain - Pat Starkey
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: Child Welfare and Social Action - Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey
I. GENDER AND 'DELINQUENCY'
1. Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945 - Tamara Myers
2. 'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds - J. A. Brown, M. Burman and K. Tisdall
II. CHILD EMIGRATION
3. Fairbridge Child Migrants - Geoffrey Sherington
4. Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960 - Patrick A. Dunae
5. Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea - Shurlee Swain
6. Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945 - Kathleen Paul
III. RETHINKING PHILANTHROPY
7. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children - Lydia D. Murdoch
8. The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland - John Stewart
9. 'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children - Lynn Abrams
IV. 'WELFARE STATES' AND CHILD WELFARE
10. 'Fixing' Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945 - Molly Ladd-Taylor
11. A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain - Julie Grier
12. Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain - Pat Starkey
Notes on Contributors
Index
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