Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood
Title | Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Adams |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0252090012 |
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 origin and ideology of the Society 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. A deft analysis of the philosophy and goals of the Society details the members' own notions of good mothering, family solidarity, and legitimate marriages that structured official, elite, and popular attitudes concerning gender and poverty in France. These personal attitudes, Adams argues, greatly influenced public policy and shaped the country's burgeoning social welfare system.
My Life for the Poor
Title | My Life for the Poor PDF eBook |
Author | Mother Teresa (Saint) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Gathers into one source what she has said and written about her life, her work, her faith, and the spiritual joy she has found.
Promises I Can Keep
Title | Promises I Can Keep PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Edin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2005-03-08 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0520241134 |
The authors provide a wholly new framework for understanding why poor women have lower rates of marriage and have children outside of wedlock.
Working from the Margins
Title | Working from the Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia E. Schein |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780875463421 |
Think single mother, think poverty -- The women -- The ABC's of poverty and the single mother -- Women of commitment: struggling with the mother-provider dilemma -- Stone soup: single parenting in poverty -- Working: Hitting the cellar ceiling -- What helps? The role of social support -- I used to have dreams -- A job is not enough -- A community of efforts -- The broad perspective revisited -- Background sketches of the women.
Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Title | Poor and Pregnant in Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel G. Fuchs |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780813517797 |
In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.
Mother Teresa
Title | Mother Teresa PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Chipley Slavicek |
Publisher | Infobase Learning |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1438147414 |
Examines the life of a Catholic woman, teacher, and missionary who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for aiding the poor and dying in India.
Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Title | Poor and Pregnant in Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel G. Fuchs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Birth control |
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In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.