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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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- Unpublished Secondary Sources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.