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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England / Pat Thane and Tanya Evans.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199578504 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743 THA 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ759.45 .T47 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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?
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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?