Daughters of the State

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  • Daughters of the State Book Detail

  • Author : Barbara M. Brenzel
  • Release Date : 1985-09
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 228
  • ISBN 13 : 9780262521048
  • File Size : 78,78 MB

Daughters of the State by Barbara M. Brenzel PDF Summary

Book Description: A rich and fascinating study of education, social reform, and women's history,Daughters of the State explores the lives of young girls who came to the State Industrial School forGirls in Lancaster, Massachusetts during its first fifty years.Brenzel skillfully integrates thecomplex lines of nineteenth-century social thought and policies formed around issues of work, sexroles, schooling, and sexuality that have carried through to this century. In the school'shandwritten case histories and legislative reports, she uncovers institutional mores and biasestoward the young and the poor and especially toward women. Brenzel also reveals the plight of theparents who were forced by their circumstances to condemn their children to such institutions in thehope of improving their futures.Barbara Brenzel is Assistant Professor of Education and DepartmentChair at Wellesley College. Daughters of the State is an MIT-Harvard joint Center for Urban StudiesBook.

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