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.
List of illustrations vii(1) Notes on contributors viii(1) Acknowledgements x 1 Welfare in context 1(31) Anne Digby John Stewart 2 Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England 32(35) Sheila Ryan Johansson 3 Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 67(24) Anne Digby 4 Octavia Hill and womens networks in housing 91(31) Caroline Morrell 5 Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining 122(21) Theresa Deane 6 The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s 143(24) Lesley Hoggart 7 `The childrens party, therefore the womens party: the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain 167(22) John Stewart 8 Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s 189(19) Pat Thane 9 Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 208(21) Jane Lewis Index 229
Anne Digby (Author) , John Stewart (Author)
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