Friends of the family : the English home and its guardians, 1850-1940 /
This book seeks to explain what a reverence for "family values" meant in practice for the Western world's most family-conscious culture. Victorian England can be credited with inventing the ideal of the home inviolate, an ideal best condensed in the notion that "an Englishman...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
1998
Stanford, Calif. : 1998 Stanford, Calif. : c1998 Stanford, Calif. : 1998 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Of Castle, Home, and Sphere
- pt. I. The Counsel of Strangers. 1. Home Ministries. 2. The Policing of Parents. 3. Mental Science and the Happy Family
- pt. II. The Adjudication of the Private. 4. Summary Justice and Working-Class Marriage. 5. Families on Trial? The Work of the Juvenile Court. 6. Artificial Families: The Politics of Adoption
- Conclusion: Family Values and Moral Panic
- note: Introduction: Of Castle, Home, and Sphere
- Pt. I Counsel of Strangers
- 1 Home Ministries
- 2. Policing of Parents
- 3. Mental Science and the Happy Family
- Pt. II Adjudication of the Private
- 4. Summary Justice and Working-Class Marriage
- 5. Families on Trial? The Work of the Juvenile Court
- 6. Artificial Families: The Politics of Adoption
- Conclusion: Family Values and Moral Panic.
- Introduction: Of Castle, Home, and Sphere
- Pt. I The Counsel of Strangers. 1. Home Ministries. 2. The Policing of Parents. 3. Mental Science and the Happy Family
- Pt. II. The Adjudication of the Private. 4. Summary Justice and Working-Class Marriage. 5. Families on Trial? The Work of the Juvenile Court. 6. Artificial Families: The Politics of Adoption. Conclusion: Family Values and Moral Panic.