基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1996. Provides a stimulating introduction to a 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.
Full Description
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
1 Welfare in context, 2 Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England 3 Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 4 Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing 5 Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining 6 The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s 7 'The children's party, therefore the women's party': the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain 8 Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s 9 Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
