| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation Gender, Health and Welfare provides a stimulating introduction to a historical era which saw a huge expansion in welfare services, both state and voluntary, during which women emerged as significant "consumers" and "providers" of various measures. The themes covered in this book include: a critical examination of how welfare policies in both England and Japan crucially affected women's life chances; a study of the relationship between poverty, health and gender from 1870 to the inauguration of the National Health Service; and an examination of the issue of birth control in post-World War One England. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Welfare in context / Anne Digby -- chapter 2 Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England / Sheila Ryan Johansson -- chapter 3 Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 -- chapter 4 Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing / Caroline Morrell -- chapter 5 Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining / Theresa Deane -- chapter 6 The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s / Lesley Hoggart -- chapter 7 'The children's party, therefore the women's party': the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain / Britain John Stewart -- chapter 8 Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s / Pat Thane -- chapter 9 Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jane Lewis. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Women -- Services for -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
(OCoLC)fst01176758
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Women -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst01176935
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Digby, Anne.
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Stewart, John, 1951 December 3-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gender, health and welfare. New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 98005290 |
| ISBN |
0203026063 (electronic book) |
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9780203026069 (electronic book) |
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0415187001 (Paper) |
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