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UNINA9910170977903321 |
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Titolo |
Gender, health and welfare / / edited by Anne Digby and John Stewart |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 1998, c1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-66265-3 |
1-134-66266-1 |
1-280-33219-0 |
0-203-27222-6 |
0-203-02606-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DigbyAnne |
StewartJohn <1951 Dec. 3-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Services for - Great Britain - History |
Women - Health and hygiene - Great Britain - History |
Public welfare - Great Britain - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 1996, reprinted 1997. First published in paperback 1998. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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