Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children
Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
by Sherri Broder
"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 newspapers and novels, public debate, and private correspondence, including the irresponsible tramp, the "fallen" single mother, and the neglected child.
Broder considers how these representations contributed to debates over the nature of family life and focuses on the ways in which different historical actors - social reformers, labor activists, and ordinary laboring people - made use of the available cultural narratives about family, gender, and sexuality to comprehend changes in late Victorian America."--BOOK JACKET.
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Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
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Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
0812201450 9780812201451
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Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
April 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
Hardcover
in English
0812236548 9780812236545
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"IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, charity and child welfare reformers and labor advocates across the nation all used the troubled laboring family as the object of their sharply conflicting assessments of American society."
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