Wives without Husbands
Subtitle: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935 (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780807857793
Subjects: Family welfare; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; New York; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Women's Studies - General; anti-desertion reform; runaway husbands; male breadwinner; National Desertion Bureau; women's poverty; children's poverty; deadbeat dads; welfare policy; marriage and poverty; husband-location agencies; deserted women; deserted family; domestic relations courts; Jewish social workers; New York City; family law; Jewish community; working-class women; welfare system; consumer culture; masculine citizenship; immigration; Jewish women; New York (State); Poor women; Social conditions; Women heads of households