Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the Gypsy Question in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956 (Hardcover)

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Child protection in early state socialist Hungary
A brief introduction to the historical context: Hungary, 1949?1956
Historical and legal background of child protection in Hungary in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century
Child protection as a "solution to the Gypsy question" in nineteenth and twentieth century Hungary

Chapter 2. "The minor would hinder the mother in finding employment": Child protection regulating women's labor force participation
A lack of child care services and "delinquent" children
"The minor would hinder the mother in finding employment": Child protection as a tool to force unemployed mothers to enter paid work
"As they are Gypsies, they are not employed": The negative evaluation of Romani motherhood
Parents requesting their children's institutionalization for the purposes of child care

Chapter 3. "She occupied herself with men": Child protection regulating the sexual morality of lone mothers and single young women
Concern about women's sexual morality in early state socialist Hungary
The regulation of lone mothers' sexuality
The representation of lone mothers in the case files of children in state care
The regulation of Romani women's sexuality
Regulating the sexuality of single young women

Chapter 4. "Make Them Experience the Good Taste of Productive Work": Residential Care as an Institution of Education
Reformatory and reform pedagogy: The origins of education for work in residential care education
The continuity of education for work in the curricula and educational practice of residential homes under state socialism
Education for work in the socialist context: reform pedagogical and reformatory traditions
"Make them experience the good taste of productive work": What education for work meant to child protection professionals during and after socialism
Turning work into a habit
Education for work as education for life: Creating gendered habits
Education for work as a means towards the assimilation of Roma

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
Emmi Pikler and the history of "Loczy"
The cases of Laszlo Rajk Jr. and Matyas Donath
Julia Rajk and Eva Bozoky's (re)construction of their children's institutionalization

Conclusion

Appendix

Biographical information

Bibliography