Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children [electronic resource] : negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Sherri Broder.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002Description: 259 p. : illISBN: 9780812201451 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Family social work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Child welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Poor families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Working class families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.7/09748/1109034 LOC classification: HV699.4.P5 | B76 2002Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Tramps, Fallen Women, and Neglected Children: Political Culture and the Urban Poor in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. Informing the "Cruelty": Laboring Communities and Reform Intervention -- 3. Dens of Inequities: Laboring Families and Reform Intervention -- 4. Illegitimate Mothers, Redemptive Maternity -- 5. Murderous Mothers and Mercenary Baby Farmers?.
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