Title: Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children : negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia /
Authors: Broder, Sherri.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Family social work Pennsylvania Philadelphia History; Child welfare Pennsylvania Philadelphia History; Poor families Pennsylvania Philadelphia History; Working class families Pennsylvania Philadelphia History
Abstract: "In late Victorian America, few issues held the public's attention more closely than the allegedly unnatural family 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.
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?.