Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : international perspectives / edited by Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey.
2001
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Title
Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : international perspectives / edited by Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey.
Published
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2001.
Call Number
HV707 .C475 2001
ISBN
0853236763
0853236860 (pbk.)
0853236860 (pbk.)
Description
vi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47900599
Note
Based on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Child Welfare and Social Action / Jon Lawrence Pat Starkey
1
1
Gender and 'Delinquency'
1Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945 / Tamara Myers
15
2'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds / J. A. Brown M. Burman K. Tisdall
36
II
Child Emigration
3Fairbridge Child Migrants / Geoffrey Sherington
53
4Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960 / Patrick A. Dunae
82
5Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea / Shurlee Swain
101
6Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945 / Kathleen Paul
121
III
Rethinking Philanthropy
7From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children / Lydia D. Murdoch
147
8The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland / John Stewart
174
9'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children / Lynn Abrams
195
IV
'Welfare States' and Child Welfare
10'Fixing' Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945 / Molly Ladd-Taylor
219
11A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain / Julie Grier
234
12Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain / Pat Starkey
256
Notes on Contributors
277
Index
280