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Gender, health and welfare / edited by Anne Digby and John Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Digby Stewart Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Services for--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Women.
- Women--Health and hygiene--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Public welfare--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1998, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gender, Health and Welfare deals primarily with the century before the creation of the classic welfare state in Britain. It provides a stimulating introduction to an historical era which saw a huge expansion in welfare services, both state and voluntary, and during which women emerged as significant 'consumers' and 'providers' of various measures.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Editors' note to the paperback edition; Acknowledgements; Welfare in context Anne Digby and John Stewart; Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England Sheila Ryan Johansson; Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870 1948 Anne Digby; Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing Caroline Morrell; Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining Theresa Deane; The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s Lesley Hoggart
- 'The children's party, therefore the women's party': the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain John StewartGender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s 1940s Pat Thane; Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Jane Lewis; Index
- Notes:
- First published 1996, reprinted 1997. First published in paperback 1998.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-66265-3
- 1-134-66266-1
- 1-280-33219-0
- 0-203-27222-6
- 0-203-02606-3
- 9780203026069
- OCLC:
- 560517309
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