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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England /

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This is the first book to describe the real lives of unmarried mothers, and attitudes towards them, in England from the First World War to the present day. The focus is on England because the legal positions, and other circumstances, of unmarried mothers were often very different elsewhere in Britai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thane, Pat
Other Authors: Evans, Tanya, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Unmarried mothers > England > London > History > 18th century.
Public welfare > England > History > 20th century.
Mères célibataires > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Aide sociale > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siècle.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Public welfare
Unmarried mothers
England
England > London
1700-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Secrets and lies : being and becoming an unmarried mother in early-twentieth-century England
  • Between the wars
  • The Second World War : another moral panic
  • Unmarried motherhood in "family Britain" : challenging Bowlby
  • Unmarried mothers in the "welfare state"
  • The permissive society? Unmarried motherhood in the 1960s
  • A finer future?
  • The struggle continues : 1980s-90s
  • Into the twenty-first century : progress?