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Author : Stephen Heathorn
Release : 2000
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Book Synopsis For Home, Country, and Race: Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Ele by : Stephen Heathorn
Download or read book For Home, Country, and Race: Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Ele written by Stephen Heathorn. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Heathorn
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis For Home, Country, and Race by : Stephen J. Heathorn
Download or read book For Home, Country, and Race written by Stephen J. Heathorn. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England's elementary school system at the turn of the century. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions.
Author : Peter Mandler
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The English National Character by : Peter Mandler
Download or read book The English National Character written by Peter Mandler. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De geschiedenis van opvattingen over het nationale karakter van de Engelsen in de afgelopen twee eeuwen.
Author : Karen Hagemann
Release : 2008-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Civil Society and Gender Justice by : Karen Hagemann
Download or read book Civil Society and Gender Justice written by Karen Hagemann. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept? Conversely, does feminism need the concept of civil society? This important volume offers both a revised gendered history of civil society and a program for making it more egalitarian in the future. An interdisciplinary group of internationally known authors investigates the relationship between public and private in the discourses and practices of civil societies; the significance of the family for the project of civil society; the relation between civil society, the state, and different forms of citizenship; and the complex connection between civil society, gendered forms of protest and nongovernmental movements. While often critical of historical instantiations of civil society, all the authors nonetheless take seriously the potential inherent in civil society, particularly as it comes to influence global politics. They demand, however, an expansion of both the concept and project of civil society in order to make its political opportunities available to all.
Author : Lydia Murdoch
Release : 2006-02-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Imagined Orphans by : Lydia Murdoch
Download or read book Imagined Orphans written by Lydia Murdoch. This book was released on 2006-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, neglectful parents. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents-they, in fact, frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families.In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions-a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children.With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the stereotypically dire situation of families living in poverty. While reformers' motivations seem well-intentioned, she shows how their methods solidified the public's anti-poor sentiment and justified a minimalist welfare state that engendered a cycle of poverty. As they worked to fashion model citizens, reformers' efforts to protect and care for children took on an increasingly imperial cast that would continue into the twentieth century.
