Immoral Habits: Delinquent White Girls in 1920s Cape Town and the Distribution of Blame
Immoral Habits: Delinquent White Girls in 1920s Cape Town and the Distribution of Blame
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不道德的习惯：20 年代开普敦的不良白人女孩以及责任的分配
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10.1080/02582473.2020.1725783
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发表时间：
2020
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0.4
通讯作者：
Jackson W
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Jackson W
在最近关于南非儿童福利历史的历史著作中，相当多地强调了贫穷的白人问题。儿童福利的发展通常被视为提升所谓“贫穷白人”的更广泛项目的一部分。这篇文章以这部文献为基础，聚焦于南非儿童福利工作的一个特殊方面--试图管教“失控”的青少年。我认为，与失控的年轻人有关的案例表明，公众对青春期女性性行为的反感是多么强烈。这不仅仅是“通婚”或跨种族性行为的问题。案例记录表明，女性性行为的证据是如何在日常生活中由儿童福利机构、国家官员、社区成员和家庭自己构建的。这些声音一起起到了分散指责的作用。感兴趣的人借鉴了流行的关于精神缺陷和道德偏差的优生主义观点，但这些观点通过一个更印象主义的、常识性的术语来过滤，描述了女孩的外表，她们的穿着，她们的行为方式，以及她们认识的人。只要将责任归咎于糟糕的母亲和糟糕的家庭，它通常也会针对女孩本身，在许多情况下导致长期的机构监禁。
In much recent historical writing on the history of South African child welfare considerable emphasis has been placed on the poor white problem. The development of child welfare is typically seen as part of the wider project to uplift so-called ‘poor whites’. This article builds on this literature by focusing on one particular aspect of South African child welfare work – the attempt to discipline ‘uncontrollable’ youth. Case histories pertaining to out-of-control young people, I argue, reveal the intensity of the public antipathy towards adolescent female sexuality. This was not only a problem of ‘miscegenation’ or interracial sex. Case histories show how evidence of female sexuality was constructed in the day-to-day – by child welfare agents, state officials, community members and families themselves. Together, these voices worked to distribute blame. Interested parties drew on prevailing eugenicist ideas around mental weakness and moral aberration but these were filtered through a more impressionistic, common-sense vernacular that described how girls looked, what they wore, how they behaved and who they knew. As often as blame was located with bad mothers and bad homes, it was also directed at girls themselves, leading in many cases to long-term institutional confinement.
断脐：纳塔尔杀婴和隐瞒出生，1860-1935 年。
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发表时间：
2011
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作者：
Prinisha Badassy
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Prinisha Badassy