Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

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In late Victorian The usa few issues held the public’s attention more closely than the allegedly unnatural circle of relatives 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 circle of relatives life and specializes in the ways different historical actors—social reformers, labor activists, and extraordinary laboring people—made use of the to be had cultural narratives about circle of relatives, gender, and sexuality to comprehend changes in turn-of-the-century The usa.

In the decades after the Civil War, Philadelphia was once the most important center of charity, child protection, and labor reform. Drawing on the rich records of the Pennsylvania Society to Give protection to Children from Cruelty, Broder assesses the intentions and consequences of reform efforts devoted to women and children at the turn of the century. Her research provides an eloquent study of how the terms used by social workers and their clients to talk about the condition of poverty continue to have a profound influence on social policies and develops a complex historical point of view on how social policy and representations of poor families have been and remain mutually influential.

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