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Online-Ressource (265 p)
ISBN:
9780252035470
Content:
This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-Revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle-class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children. In Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, Christine Adams traces the Society's key role in shaping notions of maternity and in shifting the care of poor families from the hands of charitable volunteers with religious-tinged social visions to paid welfare workers with secular goals such as population growth and patriotism. Adams plumbs the Society's origin and ideology and its branches, showing how elite women in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rouen, Marseille, Dijon, and Limoges tried to influence the maternal behavior of women and families with lesser financial means and social status.
Content:
Cover -- title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledments -- Introduction: Maternal Societies in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. "Moses Saved from the Waters": The Origins of the Society for Maternal Charity -- 2. "A Grand and Official Institution": The Society for Maternal Charity under Napoleon -- 3. Modeling Maternal Behavior: Relations between the Dames Visiteuses and the Pauvres Meres Indigentes -- 4. In the Public Interest: Charitable Associations and Public-utility Status -- 5. "Seconding the Views of the Government": Maternal Societies and the State -- Epilogue: Toward a Welfare State -- Notes -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledments""; ""Introduction: Maternal Societies in the Nineteenth Century""; ""1. ""Moses Saved from the Waters"": The Origins of the Society for Maternal Charity""; ""2. ""A Grand and Official Institution"": The Society for Maternal Charity under Napoleon""; ""3. Modeling Maternal Behavior: Relations between the Dames Visiteuses and the Pauvres Meres Indigentes""; ""4. In the Public Interest: Charitable Associations and Public-utility Status""; ""5. ""Seconding the Views of the Government"": Maternal Societies and the State""
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""Epilogue: Toward a Welfare State""""Notes""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252090011
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252035470
Additional Edition:
Print version Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood : Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France
Language:
English
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