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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170977903321

Titolo

Gender, health and welfare / / edited by Anne Digby and John Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1998, c1996

ISBN

1-134-66265-3

1-134-66266-1

1-280-33219-0

0-203-27222-6

0-203-02606-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DigbyAnne

StewartJohn <1951 Dec. 3->

Disciplina

362.83/8/0941

Soggetti

Women - Services for - Great Britain - History

Women - Health and hygiene - Great Britain - History

Public welfare - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1996, reprinted 1997. First published in paperback 1998.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.