Author: T. Evans
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.
Unfortunate Objects
Author: T. Evans
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by exploring the encounters between poor women and the parish as well as London's lying-in hospitals and the Foundling Hospital. It suggests that unmarried mothers did not constitute a deviant minority within London's plebeian community. In fact, many could expect to find compassion rather than ostracism a response to their plight. All poor mothers, left without the support of their child's father, shared similar strategies of survival and economies of makeshift.
The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Bad Beginning
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Egmont Books Limited
ISBN: 9781405281782
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents have been killed, and they are forced to go and stay with their Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children.
Publisher: Egmont Books Limited
ISBN: 9781405281782
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents have been killed, and they are forced to go and stay with their Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children.
The Bottom Line: Unfortunate Side Effects of Capitalist Culture
Author: Arthur McGovern
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This monograph explores the role of culture in modern societies and the side effects that result when that role is distorted. The basic premise of this book is that many of the dominant cultural characteristics of modern life, like the ideologies and values associated with materialism and consumer capitalism, are cultural phenomena with influences that are in many ways problematic and in some ways downright detrimental to our sustained societal well-being. I argue in this book that the globalized capitalist economic system has become increasingly efficient in terms of scale and scope, but has also become less humane in many regards; less connected to human needs and concerns. Of particular concern is the encroachment of economic interests into areas of human society that traditionally have been free from profit motives, or at least only minimally influenced by them; areas such as scientific research, the justice system, and even family relationships. I suggest that there is a slow but steady intrusion into these areas of human life that were once considered off-limits to naked economic incentives and calculations. This intrusion puts the idea of America as a free and democratic society increasingly at risk when private economic stakeholders meddle in the political and cultural areas of society in ever more insidious ways to further their own enrichment at the expense of the public. Furthermore, the vast capitalist economic system is in many ways increasingly disconnected or disembedded from the contexts and regulations of traditional social relations as in the past.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This monograph explores the role of culture in modern societies and the side effects that result when that role is distorted. The basic premise of this book is that many of the dominant cultural characteristics of modern life, like the ideologies and values associated with materialism and consumer capitalism, are cultural phenomena with influences that are in many ways problematic and in some ways downright detrimental to our sustained societal well-being. I argue in this book that the globalized capitalist economic system has become increasingly efficient in terms of scale and scope, but has also become less humane in many regards; less connected to human needs and concerns. Of particular concern is the encroachment of economic interests into areas of human society that traditionally have been free from profit motives, or at least only minimally influenced by them; areas such as scientific research, the justice system, and even family relationships. I suggest that there is a slow but steady intrusion into these areas of human life that were once considered off-limits to naked economic incentives and calculations. This intrusion puts the idea of America as a free and democratic society increasingly at risk when private economic stakeholders meddle in the political and cultural areas of society in ever more insidious ways to further their own enrichment at the expense of the public. Furthermore, the vast capitalist economic system is in many ways increasingly disconnected or disembedded from the contexts and regulations of traditional social relations as in the past.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
THE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee
Author: Martin Archer Shee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Complete Works
The Works of Robert Burns: Prose [mainly correspondence
Napoleon, His Court and Family
Author: Laure Junot Abrantès (duchesse d')
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description