Protected Children, Regulated Mothers Gender and the "Gypsy Question" in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956 / Eszter Varsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varsa, Eszter, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanies.

Children--Institutional care.

Child welfare.

Romanies--Hungary--History--20th century.

Child welfare--Hungary--History--20th century.

Children--Institutional care--Hungary--History--20th century.

Children.

Hungary.

Hungary--History--1945-1989.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Protected Children, Regulated Mothers examines child protection in Stalinist Hungary as a part of twentieth-century (East Central, Eastern, and Southeastern) European history. Across the communist bloc, the increase of residential homes was preferred to the prewar system of foster care. The study challenges the transformation of state care into a tool of totalitarian power. Rather than political repression, educators mostly faced an arsenal of problems related to social and economic transformations following the end of World War II. They continued rather than cut with earlier models of reform and reformatory education. The author's original research based on hundreds of children's case files and interviews with institution leaders, teachers, and people formerly in state care demonstrates that child protection was not only to influence the behavior of children but also to regulate especially lone mothers' entrance to paid work and their sexuality. Children's homes both reinforced and changed existing patterns of the gendered division of work. A major finding of the book is that child protection had a centuries-long common history with the "solution to the Gypsy question" rooted in efforts towards the erasure of the perceived work-shyness of "Gypsies.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 CHILD PROTECTION IN EARLY STATE SOCIALIST HUNGARY

Chapter 2 “THE MINOR WOULD HINDER THE MOTHER IN FINDING EMPLOYMENT”: CHILD PROTECTION REGULATING WOMEN’S LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION

Chapter 3 “SHE OCCUPIED HERSELF WITH MEN”: CHILD PROTECTION REGULATING THE SEXUAL MORALITY OF LONE MOTHERS AND SINGLE YOUNG WOMEN

Chapter 4 “MAKE THEM EXPERIENCE THE GOOD TASTE OF PRODUCTIVE WORK”: RESIDENTIAL CARE AS AN INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION

Chapter 5 “HE WAS THREE YEARS OLD BUT COULD NOT SPEAK AND HAD NO EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO ANYBODY”: STATE CARE AS DISCOURSE ON STALINIST POLITICAL TERROR IN SOCIALIST HUNGARY

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72152-4

963-386-341-4

9781003721529

OCLC:

1221017440