| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figure and Tables -- Figure -- Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Defining Illegitimacy -- Illegitimacy and Class -- The Illegitimate Individual, Family, and Stigma -- Structure -- 1: The Context of Illegitimacy -- Illegitimacy, Sin, and Disorder: 1660-1730 -- The Shift from Sin to Innocence: 1730-1800 -- Continued Inequalities: 1800-34 -- Conclusion -- 2: Mothers and Fathers -- Filiated Fathers -- Working Mothers |
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Paternity outside the Poor Law -- Maternity outside the Poor Law -- Conclusion -- 3: Households, Surrogate Parents, and Care -- Poverty and the Maternal Family -- Precarity and Belonging -- Foster Parents -- Charity and Credit -- Conclusion -- 4: Lineage and Kinship -- Lineage: Blood, Name, and Property -- Kinship: Obligation, Reciprocity, and Affection -- Conclusion -- 5: Education, Occupation, and Marriage -- Education -- Occupation -- Marriage -- Conclusion -- 6: Identification, Stigma, and the Self -- State Registration and the Poor Law -- Social Identification |
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Stigma, Exclusion, and Tolerance -- Shame and Identity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources -- Electronic Databases -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, telling stories of individuals across the socio-economic scale. This vivid investigation of the meaning of illegitimacy gets to the heart of powerful inequalities in families, communities, and the state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed June 30, 2023) |
| Subject |
Illegitimacy -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Illegitimacy
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043315
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191959325 |
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0191959324 |
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9780192692825 |
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0192692828 |
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