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Imagined Orphans

Author : Lydia Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537223
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Orphans written by Lydia Murdoch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.

Depicting Canada’s Children

Author : Loren Lerner
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554582853
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Depicting Canada’s Children written by Loren Lerner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.

Orphans

Author : Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787381145
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Orphans written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion--but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline. Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of "orphans," and explores their many "makers"--from natural or man-made catastrophes to the State, charity, and other social forces that have separated children, especially the poor, from their close kin. But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbors or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans--including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs--have led remarkable lives.

Child Care in Black and White

Author : Jessie B. Ramey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036905
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Child Care in Black and White written by Jessie B. Ramey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of childcare in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.

The Lost Children

Author : Tara Zahra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061373
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Children written by Tara Zahra and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families, and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civilization itself. Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations proclaimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara Zahra demonstrates that they defined the “best interests” of children in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized individuals and the peace and stability of Europe. Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone—from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers—to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riveting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today’s wars and in the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee policies.

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

Author : Leila Neti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837484
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination written by Leila Neti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the shared cultural genealogy of popular Victorian novels and judicial opinions of the Privy Council.

The Victorian Baby in Print

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198858019
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Baby in Print written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography that has defined the Victorian age.

Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940

Author : Andrea Griffante
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030308707
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 by : Andrea Griffante

Download or read book Children, Poverty and Nationalism in Lithuania, 1900–1940 written by Andrea Griffante and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War. In particular, it focuses on how such practices were influenced by nationalist and political discourses, and how orphanages became privileged institutions for nation building. Emerging during the humanitarian crisis following the First World War, the Lithuanian orphaned and destitute children’s assistance network had an eminently ethno-national character, and existed in parallel with, and was challenged by, Polish poor child assistance institutions. By analysing such care for children, this book explores concepts such as the nation state and citizenship, as well as the connections between poverty, childhood and nationalism.

Orphan Island

Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062443437
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Orphan Island written by Laurel Snyder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

Rescuing the Vulnerable

Author : Beate Althammer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178533137X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing the Vulnerable written by Beate Althammer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations—neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed—it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.

Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History

Author : Stephanie Olsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137484845
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History written by Stephanie Olsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History is the first book to innovatively combine the history of childhood and youth with the history of emotions, combining multiple national, colonial, and global perspectives.

The Orphan Master's Son

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0812992792
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Orphan Master's Son written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.

LITERATURE: Lingua Franca of Cultures

Author : Senem ÜSTÜN KAYA
Publisher : Transnational Press London
ISBN 13 : 1801352127
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book LITERATURE: Lingua Franca of Cultures written by Senem ÜSTÜN KAYA and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is an essential unit of a culture and social, political and historical changes in a society impact both culture, language, and particularly, literature. Although there are various languages in the world, literature is the main communication that connects people from different cultures and countries. Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures, thus, is designed to depict the similarities between different cultures within similar issues and topics. To meet this purpose, the book contains thirteen chapters, each of which was designed to clarify, exemplify and interpret a specific theme, underscored by remarkable authors from different cultures. Within this scope, each chapter respectively presents a topic: diseases, male gaze, children, intimate relations, antagonists or protagonists, human nature, war and depression, parenthood, death and suicide, God and religion, geography and human, revenge, and alienation. In each chapter, notable literary texts from different authors were analyzed to foreground the thematic and contextual similarities. This book, hence, provides readers different perspectives and interpretations to better internalize the common themes and messages of world classics. Although there are various studies of the remarkable senior academicians in the comparative literary field, hopefully, Literature: Lingua Franca of Cultures would contribute to this field both for the academicians and readers. Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: DISEASES CHAPTER II: MALE GAZE CHAPTER III: CHILDREN CHAPTER IV: INTIMATE RELATIONS CHAPTER V: ANTAGONISTS OR PROTAGONISTS CHAPTER VI: HUMAN NATURE CHAPTER VII: WAR AND DEPRESSION CHAPTER VIII: PARENTHOOD CHAPTER IX: DEATH AND SUICIDE CHAPTER X: GOD AND RELIGION CHAPTER XI: GEOGRAPHY AND HUMAN CHAPTER XII: REVENGE CHAPTER XIII: ALIENATION

Orphans, Real and Imaginary

Author : Eileen Simpson
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Orphans, Real and Imaginary written by Eileen Simpson and published by Plume. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines the author's recollections of growing up as an orphan with a series of perceptive essays about the nature of orphanhood.

Pictures of Poverty

Author : Lydia Jakobs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969863
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of Poverty written by Lydia Jakobs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief.

Children of the Rainforest

Author : Camilla Morelli
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978825234
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Rainforest written by Camilla Morelli and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.

Rereading Orphanhood

Author : Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474464386
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Orphanhood written by Diane Warren and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.