Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England /

Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by employment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine-Clark, Marjorie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
19e siecle.
Sante de la femme.
Histoire.
Femme au travail.
Femme.
Époque victorienne.
Condition socioeconomique.
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects.
Women > Health and hygiene > Political aspects.
Women > Employment.
Women employees.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Personnel feminin > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
History, 19th Century
Employment > history
Women's Health > history
Women > Health and hygiene > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Women > Health and hygiene > Political aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Women > England > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Employment > England > History > 19th century.
Women employees > England > History > 19th century.
Angleterre.
England.
England
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by employment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780814273319
Access:Open Access

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