Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England text
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
- 223p. Hbk
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index.
Secrets and lies : being and becoming an unmarried mother in early-twentieth-century England -- Between the wars -- The Second World War : another moral panic -- Unmarried motherhood in "family Britain" : challenging Bowlby -- Unmarried mothers in the "welfare state" -- The permissive society? Unmarried motherhood in the 1960s -- A finer future? -- The struggle continues : 1980s-90s -- Into the twenty-first century : progress?
9780199578504
2012006102
Unmarried mothers - England - London - History - 18th century Public welfare - England - History - 20th century