Evans, Tanya Thane, Pat

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

306.874 THA