1st Edition
Protected Children, Regulated Mothers Gender and the "Gypsy Question" in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956
By Eszter Varsa
Copyright 2021
256 Pages
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Central European University Press
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 prewar foster care system was increasingly replaced after 1945 by institutionalization in residential homes. This shift was often interpreted as a further attempt to establish totalitarian... Read more
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
Biography
Eszter Varsa is post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project ZARAH: Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally, From the Age of Empires to the Late 20th Century at Central European University, Vienna.
