Lydia Murdoch

Imagined Orphans

Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions. This book argues that this discrepancy stems from conflicts over middle and working-class notions of citizenship. It urges readers to reconsider the stereotypically dire situation of families living in poverty.

Produktdetails

• Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780813537221
• ISBN-10: 0813537223
• Artikelnr.: 21697512

Autorenporträt

Murdoch, Lydia

Inhaltsangabe

"A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular
representations of poor children
From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic
identity for poor children
The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of
poverty
"That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights
of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children
Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members
of empire
"Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship