HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Purity Movement, Social Gospel, Home Children
15 Nov 2017
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Moral regulation and saving the children: pre-1830s, concern for the child"s soul, needed to ensure the man power for the state. Main point: from 1830 until the early 20th century, philanthropic organizations and later the state, increased their presence within people"s private lives. The crusade for children"s rights meant an increased role for the state in the lives of children. During this period, the vast majority of philanthropists were christian evangelicals. Inspired by the social gospel : you have a responsibility to your follow man and to spend your time and resources to better society and stop the devils work (sexuality and alcoholism, resulted in the prohibition. From 1830 to 1920, philanthropic endeavours take on an interventionist ideology: middle classes passing judgement on to the lower class. The ripper story was part of a formative moment in the production of female sexual politics. White chapel home to foreign immigrants and had transients became sexual (because the ripper killed prostitutes)
