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

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Poor women in Victorian England were caught between contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, seen to preclude any but domestic labor, and the able body, which dictated that all poor but healthy people must work to stay independent. Levine-Clark (history, U. of Colorado, Denver) uses medical case narratives of poor women to explore the centrality of gender and the body in the formation of Victorian policies on employment, public health, and welfare as well as to challenge historians' customary ...
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Poor women in Victorian England were caught between contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, seen to preclude any but domestic labor, and the able body, which dictated that all poor but healthy people must work to stay independent. Levine-Clark (history, U. of Colorado, Denver) uses medical case narratives of poor women to explore the centrality of gender and the body in the formation of Victorian policies on employment, public health, and welfare as well as to challenge historians' customary presentation of Victorian women's delicate health. Of interest to scholars of the histories of medicine, gender, labor, and social policy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780814251225
  • Publisher: Ohio State University Press
  • Publication date: 3/28/2004
  • Series: WOMEN and HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE Series
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Contested Body Politics: Women, Health, and Social Reform in the 1830s and 1840s 13
1 The Reproductive Body, Part I: Women's Work and The Biology of Reproduction 17
2 The Reproductive Body, Part II: The Tasks of Social Reproduction 36
3 Gender, the Poor Law, and the Ambiguity of the Able-Bodied Worker 57
Pt. 2 Living in the Body: Women's Experiences of Health and Illness 73
4 The Evidence of the Body: Poor Women and Medical Cultures 77
5 Testing the Reproductive Hypothesis: Women's Illnesses, the Environment, and Menstruation 96
6 Health and the Material Conditions of Home: Sanitation, Poverty, and Domesticity 118
7 "Rather a Hard Life": Domestic Relationships and Health at Home 131
8 "She Continued at Her Work": Negotiating Employment and Health 150
Conclusion: The Politics of Women's Health and Work 176
Notes 185
Select Bibliography 229
Index 249
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