| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Protected Children, Regulated Mothers examines child protection in Stalinist Hungary as a part of twentieth-century (East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern) European history. Across the communist bloc, the increase of residential homes was preferred to the prewar system of foster care. The study challenges the transformation of state care into a tool of totalitarian power. Rather than political repression, educators mostly faced an arsenal of problems related to social and economic transformations following the end of World War II. They continued rather than cut with earlier models of reform and reformatory education. The author's original research based on hundreds of children's case files and interviews with institution leaders, teachers, and people formerly in state care demonstrates that child protection was not only to influence the behavior of children but also to regulate especially lone mothers' entrance to paid work and their sexuality. Children's homes both reinforced and changed existing patterns of the gendered division of work. A major finding of the book is that child protection had a centuries-long common history with the "solution to the Gypsy question" rooted in efforts towards the erasure of the perceived work-shyness of "Gypsies.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children -- Institutional care -- Hungary -- History -- 20th century.
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Children -- Institutional care. |
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Hungary. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- Hungary -- History -- 20th century.
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Romanies -- Hungary -- History -- 20th century.
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Romanies. |
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Hungary -- History -- 1945-1989.
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| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
| Subject |
Child welfare. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Varsa, Eszter, 1975- Protected children, regulated mothers. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021 9789633863411 (DLC) 2020046754 |
| ISBN |
9633863422 electronic book |
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9789633863428 (electronic book) |
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9789633863411 hardcover |
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