Anne Digby, John Stewart

Gender, Health and Welfare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415187008
• ISBN-10: 0415187001
• Artikelnr.: 22254172

Autorenporträt

Anne Digby (Author) , John Stewart (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

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