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

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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France - Adams, Christine
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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 shaping notions of maternity and ...

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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France 2010, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252035470

Hardcover