Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?
Subtitle: unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England
By: Pat Thane and Tanya Evans
Contributors: Evans, Tanya, 1972-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780199578504
Subjects: Unmarried mothers; Public welfare; History
Description: A detailed exploration of the real lives of unmarried mothers in England through the past century, this book argues that the 'permissive' sixties were largely a revolt against the secrecy and hypocrisy that went before.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secrets and lies : being and becoming an unmarried mother in early-twentieth-century England; title: Between the wars; title: The Second World War : another moral panic; title: Unmarried motherhood in "family Britain" : challenging Bowlby; title: Unmarried mothers in the "welfare state"; title: The permissive society? Unmarried motherhood in the 1960s; title: A finer future?; title: The struggle continues : 1980s-90s; title: Into the twenty-first century : progress?