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This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

History of Europe --- anno 1800-1899 --- Poor --- Poor women --- Pauvres --- Femmes pauvres --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek --- Economic conditions --- Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Feminization of poverty --- Women, Poor --- Women --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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"Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought"--

Foundlings --- Abandoned children --- Child welfare --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- Children --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Children, Abandoned --- Exposed children --- Homeless children --- History --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection --- France --- Social policy. --- Stiegler, Bernard --- Political and social views.

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During the nineteenth century, European women experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. Breaking away from traditional categories, the authors of this book provide a sense of the variety and complexity of women's lives across national and regional boundaries, juxtaposing the experiences of women with their perceptions of their lives. Three themes unite this study: the tension between tradition and modernity, the changing relationship between the community and individual, and the shifting boundaries between public and private.

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