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Author Broder, Sherri.

Title Tramps, unfit mothers, and neglected children [electronic resource] : negotiating the family in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Sherri Broder.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 259 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Family social work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Child welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Poor families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Working class families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0812236548 (alk. paper)
9780812236545
9780812201451 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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