Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welfare in context / Anne Digby and John Stewart
  • Excess female mortality : constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England / Sheila Ryan Johansson
  • Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 / Anne Digby
  • Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing / Caroline Morrell
  • Late nineteenth-century philanthropy : the case of Louisa Twining / Theresa Deane
  • The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s / Lesley Hoggart
  • "The children's party, therefore the women's party" : the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain / John Stewart
  • Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s / Pat Thane
  • Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jane Lewis.