How Long to Read Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London

How Long Does it Take to Read Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London by Joshua G. Stuart-Bennett

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

Description

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the extent of women’s ‘dirty work’, when maternal problem management was fundamental to the general maintenance of respectability and, by extension, to Empire and Civilisation. Despite its intrigue, history has struggled to understand and represent an uncomfortable but significant artefact of Western modernising society: ‘baby-farming’. During a period when ideologies of respectability and civilisation arguably mattered most, the ‘right’ kind of parenthood – especially motherhood – became paramount. As the ‘wrong’ offspring could jeopardise a woman’s chances of being respectable, a wholesale, informal, and somewhat clandestine marketplace emerged that catered to various maternal difficulties. Within this marketplace, a pregnancy or newborn child who may have compromised a woman’s respectability could be ‘disposed’ of through different means, for a fee. From the Victorian period to the present, the commercialised maternal practices associated with baby-farming have become firmly established within collective consciousness as being synonymous with child murder, female pathology, and ‘infanticide for hire’. This book provides a revised, far more complex, and nuanced narrative history which reveals all that was associated with baby-farming – including all possible outcomes – to be entirely natural, rational, and even necessary products of their time; an understandable outcome of the period’s ‘civilising offensive’. Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, history, and gender studies.

How long is Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London?

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London by Joshua G. Stuart-Bennett is 167 pages long, and a total of 42,919 words.

This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London aloud.

What Reading Level is Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London?

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London is suitable for students ages 10 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.

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