A Home from Home: Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920 – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192897473,0192897470, 9780192651884, 0192651889

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192651889
• ISBN-13: 9780192651884
• Author: Claudia Soares

A pioneering study of children’s social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children’s care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision. Departing from narratives of reform and discipline which have dominated scholarship, and drawing on material culture and social history approaches, as well as the extensive archives of the Waifs and Strays Society, Claudia Soares provides a new type of study of social care by offering a ‘bottom-up’ study of children’s welfare, and studying the significance of specific types of care practices that held particular cultural and ideological meaning. At its core, the book uses unique first-hand accounts, individual case records, and personal correspondence of children in care in Britain to locate the voices and subjectivities of institutionalised children and their families within the voluntary welfare system between 1870 and 1920. In doing so, it uncovers the real lives, experiences, and attitudes of the children and their families, and offers a timely new approach to understanding the history of children’s social care.

Table contents:

1. A Substitute Family? Contracts, Authority, and Applications to Residential Care

2. Creating an Institutional ‘Family’: Narratives of Affective Care and Attachment in Institutional Ideology

3. Neither Waif nor Stray: Tension, Conflict, and Negotiation over Children’s Care

4. Feeling at Home? Stability, Security, and Homeliness in the Children’s Institution

5. An Ideal Life for a Child? Children’s Nurture and Family Time in the Institution

6. Transitions from Care: Aftercare and Support for Care Leavers

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