Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and ...

divThis collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state./divdivAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Child Welfare and Social Action -iJon Lawrence and Pat Starkey/iI. GENDER AND 'DELINQUENCY'1. Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945 -iTamara Myers/i2. 'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds -iJ. A. Brown, M. Burman and K. Tisdall/iII. CHILD EMIGRATION3. Fairbridge Child Migrants -iGeoffrey Sherington/i4. Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960 -iPatrick A. Dunae/i5. Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea -iShurlee Swain/i6. Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945 -iKathleen Paul/iIII. RETHINKING PHILANTHROPY7. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children -iLydia D. Murdoch/i8. The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland -iJohn Stewart/i9. 'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children -iLynn Abrams/iIV. 'WELFARE STATES' AND CHILD WELFARE10. 'Fixing' Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945 -iMolly Ladd-Taylor/i11. A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain -iJulie Grier/i12. Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain -iPat Starkey/iNotes on ContributorsIndex/div