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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood : Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France

Paperback • 2010 • English

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood : Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France

By Christine Adams

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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 shapi...Show more

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ISBN

9780252035470

Publisher

Baltimore, MD, USA : University of Illinois Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood : Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France

Format

Paperback

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