Beyond the Reproductive Body
POLITICS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH & WORK IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, Beyond the Reproductive Body examines women's health in relation to work in early Victorian England. Government officials and reformers investigating the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by gainful employment, making women incapable of reproducing a healthy labor force. Women's work was thus framed as a public health problem. Poor women were caught between the contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, which supposedly precluded any but domestic labor, and the able body, which dictated tha…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8142-5122-5
- EAN: 9780814251225
- Produktnummer: 1539775
- Verlag: The Ohio State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 423 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 423
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