Women, Peace and Welfare : A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920 /

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Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries, driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism. Ann Oakley uses the women's stories to bring together the histories of social reform, social science, welfare and pacifism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Oakley, Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.
Edición:1st
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions.
Social change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social change > Western countries > History > 20th century.
Social change > Western countries > History > 19th century.
Women > Western countries > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Western countries > Social conditions > 19th century.
Western countries.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; WOMEN, PEACE AND WELFARE; Contents; Sources for illustrations; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Legacies of difficult women: the story of this book; 2. Imagining the good society: from economic facts to utopian fictions; 3. Settlement sociology: discovering social science; 4. Municipal housekeeping: women clean up the cities; 5. Sanitary science: putting the science into housework; 6. 'Peace is too small a word for all this': women peace makers; 7. 'Our cosmic patriotism': diversity and the dangers of nationalism; 8. Deeds, not words: women reformers and healthcare.
  • 9. Dangerous trades: reforming industrial labour10. Domestic relations: female attachments, homes, and the trouble with marriage; 11. New deals: women reformers in the 1920s and 1930s; 12. Ways of forgetting: women reformers as missing persons; Appendix: list of women reformers; Notes; Index.

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