How Long to Read Fallen Women, Problem Girls

How Long Does it Take to Read Fallen Women, Problem Girls?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Fallen Women, Problem Girls by Regina G. Kunzel

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously unexamined case records from maternity homes, Regina Kunzel explores how women negotiated the crisis of single pregnancy and analyzes the different ways they understood and represented unmarried motherhood. Fallen Women, Problem Girls is a social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. Kunzel analyzes how evangelical women drew on a long tradition of female benevolence to create maternity homes that would redeem and reclaim unmarried mothers. She shows how, by the 1910s, social workers struggling to achieve professional legitimacy tried to dissociate their own work from that earlier tradition, replacing the reform rhetoric of sisterhood with the scientific language of professionalism. By analyzing the important and unexplored transition from the conventions of nineteenth-century reform to the professional imperatives of twentieth-century social welfare, Kunzel offers a new interpretation of gender and professionalization. Kunzel places shifting constructions of out-of-wedlock pregnancy within a broad history of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and argues that the contests among evangelical women, social workers, and unmarried mothers distilled larger generational and cross-class conflicts among women in the first half of the twentieth century.

How long is Fallen Women, Problem Girls?

Fallen Women, Problem Girls by Regina G. Kunzel is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fallen Women, Problem Girls Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Fallen Women, Problem Girls aloud.

What Reading Level is Fallen Women, Problem Girls?

Fallen Women, Problem Girls is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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