Imagined Orphans
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Imagined Orphans by Lydia Murdoch
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.
Lydia Murdoch's engaging study complements scholarship on childcare and offers the first book-length scholarly treatment of institutional care provided by agencies such as Barnardo's-- Susan L. Tananbaum * Department of History, Bowdoin College *
Murdoch explores the ways in which melodramatic incitement of pity for allegedly orphaned children worked to demonize the poor in Victorian England. This insight flies in the face of much current scholarship. Written with refreshing clarity, this historical study will illuminate public policy discussions of child welfare and poverty even in the present day. -- Susan Thorne * Associate Professor of History, Duke University *
Imagined Oftens makes many useful connections among the developing starnds of Victorian social history. ... Murdoch's work could mark an important milestone in the history of official willingness to remove poor children from parents depicted as incapable of raising them properly, a policy that has been detected as early as the seventeenth century. -- John D. Ramsbottom * Journal of Modern History *
Murdoch explores the ways in which melodramatic incitement of pity for allegedly orphaned children worked to demonize the poor in Victorian England. This insight flies in the face of much current scholarship. Written with refreshing clarity, this historical study will illuminate public policy discussions of child welfare and poverty even in the present day. -- Susan Thorne * Associate Professor of History, Duke University *
Imagined Oftens makes many useful connections among the developing starnds of Victorian social history. ... Murdoch's work could mark an important milestone in the history of official willingness to remove poor children from parents depicted as incapable of raising them properly, a policy that has been detected as early as the seventeenth century. -- John D. Ramsbottom * Journal of Modern History *
LYDIA MURDOCH is an assistant professor of history at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813537221 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813537223 |
| Title | Imagined Orphans |
| Author | Lydia Murdoch |
| Series | Rutgers Series In Childhood Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
| Year published | 2006-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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