Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France
By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France''s Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the victims of their parents'' immorality. Schafer examin...
By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France''s Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the victims of their parents'' immorality. Schafer examin...
