Illegitimacy, family and stigma in England, 1660 -1834 / Kate Gibson.

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 inequaliti...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Gibson, Kate (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • Stigma, Exclusion, and Tolerance
  • Shame and Identity
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Printed Sources
  • Electronic Databases
  • Secondary Sources
  • Unpublished Secondary Sources
  • Index.