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1) Fallen women, problem girls: unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890-1945
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously...
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