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Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : international perspectives / edited by Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey.

Other author/creatorLawrence, Jon.
Other author/creatorStarkey, Pat.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLiverpool : Liverpool University Press,
Descriptionvi, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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.
General noteBased on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2002392341
ISBN0853236763 (hardback)
ISBN0853236860 (pbk.)

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