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The Representation of ‘Baby-Farmers’ in the Scottish City, 1867–1908

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jim HinksORCiD

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Abstract

This article explores the manner in which women who provided paid childcare in Scotland were represented and collectively labelled with the pejorative term ‘baby-farmer’ across a forty-year period. It seeks to link the figure of the ‘baby-farmer’ to a wider sphere of discourses and moral frameworks than previously attempted, drawing parallels with other women engaged in processes of semi-public exchange. In so doing the article suggests a more complex articulation of gendered and spatial identity. In particular it asserts that the portrayal of these women was inextricably linked to wider conceptions of the Scottish city and that these pre-existing notions of urban space were integral to the representation of gender

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Author(s): Hinks J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Women's History Review

Year: 2014

Volume: 23

Issue: 4

Pages: 560-576

Print publication date: 26/08/2014

Online publication date: 10/03/2014

Acceptance date: 10/03/2014

ISSN (print): 0961-2025

ISSN (electronic): 1747-583X

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2014.894757

DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2014.894757

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