Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /

Main Author: Broder, Sherri.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492023
Table of Contents:
  • 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?.