Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918
The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes
History
1 online resource (335 pages)
9781280439407, 9781423738411, 9780195365009, 9781601295989, 9780195039573, 1280439408, 1423738411, 0195365003, 1601295987, 0195039572
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A NOTE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CURRENCY AND USAGE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLES; INTRODUCTION ""The Other History"": Motherhood; 1. ""Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life"": The Poor of London and Their Chroniclers; 2. ""There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of"": Feeding a Family; 3. ""A Gamble You Have to Take"": Marriage; 4. ""What Is Fated Must Be"": Having Babies; 5. ""I'll Bring 'Em Up in My Way"": Child Rearing; 6. ""She Fought for Me like a Tigress"": Sickness and Health; 7. ""The Value of Babies"": Transforming Motherhood, 1900-1918; CONCLUSION: Rediscovering Motherhood; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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