Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children
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Profoundly enjoyable and very useful.--Nineteenth-Century ContextsDeeply researched and beautifully crafted, this book is an original contribution to the history of American reform, family, and working-class culture. Broders empathic and insightful reading of her evidence opens up new understandings of late nineteenth-century negotiations of class, gender, race, and generation.--Barbara Melosh, George Mason UniversitySherri Broder analyzes how the tropes of waifs, tramps, fallen women, and dangerous mothers were used by working people, the labor movement, and reformers to negotiate respectability and family. To show the power of these cultural symbols in shaping the lives of the poor, Broder reads reform tracts, newspapers, and popular literature against samples of case histories.--Journal of Social HistoryBroders richly researched and intelligent analysis contributes to our understanding of the effects social policies have on working families.--ChoiceA model study of social welfare policies.--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyIn late Victorian America few issues held the publics 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. Broder considers how these representations contributed to debates over the nature of family life and focuses on the ways different historical actors--social reformers, labor activists, and ordinary laboring people--made use of the available cultural narratives about family, gender, and sexuality to comprehend changes in turn-of-the-century America.In the decades after the Civil War, Philadelphia was an important center of charity, child protection, and labor reform. Drawing on
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