1 INTRODUCTION
2 "THE CRUELTY": CHILD PROTECTION, 1880-1910
3 THE PROGRESSIVE-ERA TRANSFORMATION OF CHILD
PROTECTION, 1900-1920
4 SINGLE MOTHERS AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF
CHILD-PROTECTION POLICY
5 "SO MUCH FOR THE CHILDREN NOW, SO LITTLE BEFORE";
CHILD NEGLECT AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
6 "ONLY TO BRING MY CHILDREN UP GOOD": CHILD ABUSE AND
SOCIAL CHANGE
7 "BE CAREFUL ABOUT FATHER": INCEST, GIRLS' RESISTANCE,
AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FEMININITY
8 "THE POWERS OF THE WEAK": WIFE-BEATING AND BATTERED
WOMEN'S RSEISTANCE
9 CONCLUSION: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE "POWERS OF THE
WEAK"
APPENDIX A RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS METHODS
APPENDIX B CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS
NOTES
INDEX
Linda Gordon is Professor Emerita of History at New York University. She is a two-time winner of the Bancroft Prize, for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Her other books include Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 and The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America.
"Feminist scholarship at its best."--New York Times Book Review
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