Architecture in the family way : doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900 / Annemarie Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Annmarie.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 4.

McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Health aspects--England--History--19th century.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Domestic--Social aspects--England--History--19th century.

Housing and health--England--History--19th century.

Housing and health.

Architecture, Victorian--England.

Architecture, Victorian.

Architecture and women--England--History--19th century.

Architecture and women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this revealing look at the forces influencing domestic life, health, and architecture in Victorian England, Annmarie Adams argues that the many significant changes in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams reveals that middle-class houses were actually considered poisonous and dangerous and explores the involvement of physicians in exposing "unhealthy" architecture and designing improved domestic environments. She examines the contradictory roles of middle-class women as both regulators of healthy houses and sources of disease and danger within their own homes, particularly during childbirth. Architecture in the Family Way sheds light on an ambiguous period in the histories of architecture, medicine, and women, revealing it to be a time of turmoil, not of progress and reform as is often assumed.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The International Health Exhibition of 1884

Doctors as Architects

Female Regulation of the Healthy Home

Domestic Architecture and Victorian Feminism

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-221) and index.

ISBN:

9786612853791

9781282853799

1282853791

9780773565869

0773565868

OCLC:

929121371

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33476 hdl