Poverty Charity And Motherhood
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Poverty Charity And Motherhood
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Author : Christine Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Poverty Charity And Motherhood written by Christine Adams and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Social Science categories.
This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle-class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children. In Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, Christine Adams traces the Society's key role in shaping notions of maternity and in shifting the care of poor families from the hands of charitable volunteers with religious-tinged social visions to paid welfare workers with secular goals such as population growth and patriotism. Adams plumbs the origin and ideology of the Society and its branches, showing how elite women in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille, Dijon, and Limoges tried to influence the maternal behavior of women and families with lesser financial means and social status. A deft analysis of the philosophy and goals of the Society details the members' own notions of good mothering, family solidarity, and legitimate marriages that structured official, elite, and popular attitudes concerning gender and poverty in France. These personal attitudes, Adams argues, greatly influenced public policy and shaped the country's burgeoning social welfare system.
Poor And Pregnant In Paris
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Author : Rachel G. Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1992
Poor And Pregnant In Paris written by Rachel G. Fuchs and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Family & Relationships categories.
In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.
Hard And Unreal Advice
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Author : K. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-04-01
Hard And Unreal Advice written by K. Martin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with History categories.
The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.
Fighting Poverty
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Author : Nicola Barber
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2013-05-09
Fighting Poverty written by Nicola Barber and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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Promises I Can Keep
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Author : Kathryn Edin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-03-08
Promises I Can Keep written by Kathryn Edin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-08 with Family & Relationships categories.
The authors provide a wholly new framework for understanding why poor women have lower rates of marriage and have children outside of wedlock.
How To Help The Poor
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Author : Annie Fields
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
How To Help The Poor written by Annie Fields and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Charity organization categories.
The Poverty Of Life Affirming Work
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Author : Mechthild Hart
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2001-12-30
The Poverty Of Life Affirming Work written by Mechthild Hart and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-30 with Social Science categories.
While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single mothers, welfare queens, who collect public funds but do not work. Here, Hart challenges traditional notions of welfare mothers by providing first-hand accounts of poor urban mothers and revealing the life-affirming and moral aspects of their motherwork--a form of subsistence work, involving many tasks that incorporate the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of life. Though the mothering work these women do is vilified in public discourse as unnecessary and unwanted, the author contends that the ethical and epistemological dimensions of life-affirming work--a key component of motherwork--not only structure social-political activism but also educational efforts that are oriented towards radical change. Concrete experiences of motherwork, policy analyses regarding welfare reform, efforts oriented towards educational and epistemological border-crossings, and collective struggles for social change are examined here in a larger theoretical, political-economic framework. Pulling together the many strands of different theoretical fields addressing issues related to critical/transformative pedagogy, community activism, and forms of unpaid work, this unique work calls for the unlearning of ways of thinking and feeling which uphold prejudices and life-threatening social-political hierarchies. While the public may sneer at women who choose to accept welfare in order to stay home to raise their children, these mothers must continue to perform this invisible work in order that their children may break the cycle of poverty in which they are entrenched. The author examines ways in which these mothers organize and carry out educational efforts and political work in the context of extreme poverty and against the harsh criticisms of an unforgiving public. Ultimately, Hart hopes to convince the public of the inherent importance of motherwork and break down the prejudices that have worked against the urban poor and single mothers.
The Uses Of Charity
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Author : Peter Mandler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
The Uses Of Charity written by Peter Mandler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Social Science categories.
Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and welfare in their lives. Historians have tended to focus on the motives and achievements of the benefactors and institutions, in part because donors left behind such rich documentation. These essays, taking their cue from recent trends in the social sciences, address charity "from below," as experienced from the point of view of the recipients, and challenge assumptions about the "marginality" and "dependency" of the poor. The authors find that the demand for charity was constant, that the forms in which it was offered rarely matched the forms in which it was needed, that the poor used considerable ingenuity in adapting both the gifts and themselves to meet their needs, and that their attitudes toward charity often were not what either donors or historians have believed. The Uses of Charity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, and women's studies.
Working From The Margins
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Author : Virginia E. Schein
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1995
Working From The Margins written by Virginia E. Schein and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Think single mother, think poverty -- The women -- The ABC's of poverty and the single mother -- Women of commitment: struggling with the mother-provider dilemma -- Stone soup: single parenting in poverty -- Working: Hitting the cellar ceiling -- What helps? The role of social support -- I used to have dreams -- A job is not enough -- A community of efforts -- The broad perspective revisited -- Background sketches of the women.
Victorian Women Unwed Mothers And The London Foundling Hospital
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Author : Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-05-10
Victorian Women Unwed Mothers And The London Foundling Hospital written by Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with History categories.
This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that constructed the gendered world of the Victorian age, and uses 'respectability' as a factor for analysis: the women who successfully petitioned the Foundling Hospital for admission of their infants were not East End prostitutes, but rather unmarried women, often domestic servants, determined to maintain social respectability. The administrators of the Foundling Hospital reviewed over two hundred petitions annually; deliberated on about one hundred cases; and accepted not more than 25 per cent of all cases. Using primary material from the Foundling Hospital's extensive archives, this study moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.