Poor and pregnant in Paris : strategies for survival in the nineteenth century / Rachel G. Fuchs.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1992], ©1992.

xiii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Spine title: Poor & pregnant in Paris

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Blackwell N.A

Includes bibliographic references (p. [301]-314) and index

The poor and pregnant -- Immorality and motherhood : 1830-1870 -- Depopulation and motherhood : 1870-1914 -- Morality and motherhood : women's voices -- Charity and welfare for the pregnant poor -- Charity and welfare for new mothers and infants -- Mothers on welfare -- Birth control and abortion -- Infanticide and child abandonment.