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.
Table of 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
