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Book The Battle for Children

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  • Author : Sarah Fishman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-09
  • ISBN : 9780674007550
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Battle for Children written by Sarah Fishman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Fishman links two areas of inquiry, namely crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on archival research, Sarah Fishman reveals the impact and legacy of the Vichy regime's criminal justice policy on children.

Book Abandoned Children

Download or read book Abandoned Children written by Rachel G. Fuchs and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.

Book Abnormal Man

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  • Author : Arthur MacDonald
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Abnormal Man written by Arthur MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire s Children

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  • Author : Emmanuelle Saada
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-03-02
  • ISBN : 0226733076
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Empire s Children written by Emmanuelle Saada and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, this book reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. The author weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, and more, and demonstrates why the French Empire cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms.

Book Het gezin

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  • Author : W. A. Dumon
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9789061869238
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Het gezin written by W. A. Dumon and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een bundeling van de meest markante teksten van de hand van Wilfried Dumon. Deze grondlegger en boegbeeld van de gezinssociologie heeft een bevoorrechte positie om een beeld te scheppen van de feitelijke gezinsgeschiedenis.

Book Circular s  of Information

Download or read book Circular s of Information written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bastards

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  • Author : Matthew Gerber
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-17
  • ISBN : 0199921067
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Bastards written by Matthew Gerber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as "bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation. Why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard" existed in early modern French discourse, and many natural parents voluntarily recognized and cared for their extramarital offspring. Drawing upon a wide array of archival and published sources, Matthew Gerber has reconstructed numerous disputes over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in order to illuminate the changing legal condition and practical treatment of extramarital offspring over a period of two and half centuries. Gerber's study reveals that the exclusion of children born out of wedlock from the family was perpetually debated. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, royal law courts intensified their stigmatization of extramarital offspring even as they usurped jurisdiction over marriage from ecclesiastic courts. Mindful of preserving elite lineages and dynastic succession of power, reform-minded jurists sought to exclude illegitimate children more thoroughly from the household. Adopting a strict moral tone, they referred to illegitimate children as "bastards" in an attempt to underscore their supposed degeneracy. Hostility toward extramarital offspring culminated in 1697 with the levying of a tax on illegitimate offspring. Contempt was never unanimous, however, and in the absence of a unified body of French law, law courts became vital sites for a highly contested cultural construction of family. Lawyers pleading on behalf of extramarital offspring typically referred to them as "natural children." French magistrates grew more receptive to this sympathetic discourse in the eighteenth century, partly in response to soaring rates of child abandonment. As costs of "foundling" care increasingly strained the resources of local communities and the state, some French elites began to publicly advocate a destigmatization of extramarital offspring while valorizing foundlings as "children of the state." By the time the Code Civil (1804) finally established a uniform body of French family law, the concept of bastardy had become largely archaic. With a cast of characters ranging from royal bastards to foundlings, Bastards explores the relationship between social and political change in the early modern era, offering new insight into the changing nature of early modern French law and its evolving contribution to the historical construction of both the family and the state.

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contested Paternity

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  • Author : Rachel G. Fuchs
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2008-07-25
  • ISBN : 0801898161
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Contested Paternity written by Rachel G. Fuchs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2009 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner, 2009 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women HistoriansWinner, 2008 Charles E. Smith Award, European History section of the Southern Historical Association This groundbreaking study examines complex notions of paternity and fatherhood in modern France through the lens of contested paternity. Drawing from archival judicial records on paternity suits, paternity denials, deprivation of paternity, and adoption, from the end of the eighteenth century through the twentieth, Rachel G. Fuchs reveals how paternity was defined and how it functioned in the culture and experiences of individual men and women. She addresses the competing definitions of paternity and of families, how public policy toward paternity and the family shifted, and what individuals did to facilitate their personal and familial ideals and goals. Issues of paternity and the family have broad implications for an understanding of how private acts were governed by laws of the state. Focusing on paternity as a category of family history, Contested Paternity emphasizes the importance of fatherhood, the family, and the law within the greater context of changing attitudes toward parental responsibility.

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Charles Edward Shelly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Charles Edward Shelly and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Proceedings

Download or read book Report of the Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography  London  August  10th 17th  1891

Download or read book Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography London August 10th 17th 1891 written by Charles Edward Shelly and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography

Download or read book Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography written by International congress of hygiene and demography. 7th and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Every Child a Lion

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  • Author : Alisa Klaus
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-15
  • ISBN : 1501738674
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Every Child a Lion written by Alisa Klaus and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Aesop's fables tells of the fox who taunted the lion about having so few children. "Yes," the lion replies, "but every child is a lion." This dispute is particularly appropriate to Alisa Klaus's comparative account of the early history of maternal and child welfare programs in the United States and France over a thirty-year period. Her central concerns include the ways in which pronatalism in France and fears of "race suicide" in the United States shaped public and professional intervention in reproduction, and the influence of women's organizations on social policy in two different institutional and political settings.

Book Rape in Wartime

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  • Author : R. Branche
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2012-10-26
  • ISBN : 1137283394
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Rape in Wartime written by R. Branche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.