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Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution / / Lynn McDonald, editor



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Titolo: Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution / / Lynn McDonald, editor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Waterloo, ON, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1110 p.)
Disciplina: 610.73
610.73092
Soggetto topico: Women - Great Britain - Social conditions
Women's health services - Great Britain
Altri autori: McDonaldLynn <1940->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Midwifery -- Prostitution, the contagious diseases acts and the treatment of syphilitic prostitutes -- Women friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances.
Sommario/riassunto: Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale's work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ('Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions'), her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts (attempts to stop the legislation and otherwise to facilitate the voluntary treatment of syphilitic prostitutes), her views on gender roles, marriage and measures for income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Correspondents include old family friends, royal and notable personages, nuns and colleagues in various causes. Most of this material has not been published before and some letters wil be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time.
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ISBN: 1-280-28081-6
9786610280810
0-88920-916-2
1-4237-2478-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820984903321
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