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Their Benevolent Design - Janice Harvey

Their Benevolent Design

Conservative Women and Protestant Child Charities in Montreal

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Buch | Softcover
420 Seiten
2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2056-1 (ISBN)
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Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal a group of conservative, bourgeois women played a significant role by establishing institutions for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design explores how gender shaped the challenges inherent in their benevolent project.
Throughout the nineteenth century poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal bourgeois Protestant women responded by establishing institutional charities for destitute women and children.

Their Benevolent Design delves into the inner workings of two of these charities (the Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Montreal Ladies’ Benevolent Society), sheds light on little-known aspects of the community’s response to social inequality, and examines the impact of liberalism on changing attitudes to poverty and charity. Seeing charity as a class duty, elite women structured their benevolent design around the protection, religious salvation, and social regulation of poor children. Janice Harvey explores how these philanthropists overcame the constraints of social conventions for women in polite society, how charity directors devised and implemented institutional aid, and how that aid was used by families and experienced by children. Following the development of the charities through the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, the book explores the conflict that arose between these institutions and other social services, including those that advocated for foster care and so-called scientific charity. The 1920s marked a major social shift in how child poverty was understood and managed in Protestant Montreal.

Despite the gendered obstacles facing women in charity organization, Their Benevolent Design celebrates the remarkable ingenuity and independence of a group of Canadian women in shaping social aid and improving the grim realities of child poverty.

Janice Harvey is a retired professor, now scholar in residence at Dawson College and a member of the Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales in Montreal.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
Zusatzinfo 22 photos, 6 diagrams, 9 tables
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-2280-2056-5 / 0228020565
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-2056-1 / 9780228020561
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