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294

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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives
December 1, 1991, Liverpool University Press
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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives
December 1, 1991, Liverpool University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998.

Published in
Liverpool
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.7/09/034
Library of Congress
HV707 .C475 2001, HV707.C475 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 294 p. :
Number of pages
294

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Open Library
OL3619052M
ISBN 10
0853236763, 0853236860
LCCN
2002392341
OCLC/WorldCat
47900599
Goodreads
1941598
5382182

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