Lydia Murdoch

Imagined Orphans

Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

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Produktbeschreibung

In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions—a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers’ efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or “no-good” parents fed upon the poor’s increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public’s growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813537221
• ISBN-10: 0813537223
• Artikelnr.: 21697512

Autorenporträt

LYDIA MURDOCH is an assistant professor of history at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

"A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular
representations of poor children
From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic
identity for poor children
The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of
poverty
"That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights
of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children
Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members
of empire
"Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship