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Beyond the reproductive body : the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England / Marjorie Levine-Clark.
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Title:Beyond the reproductive body : the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England / Marjorie Levine-Clark.
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Author/Creator:Levine-Clark, Marjorie.
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Published/Created:Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2004.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WA11.FE5 L665 2004
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects: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.
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Medical Subjects: Women's Health--history--England.
Employment--history--England.
History, 19th Century--England.
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Description:xi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
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Series:Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:0814209564 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814251226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814290329 (CD-ROM)
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Contents:Pt. 1. Contested Body Politics: Women, Health, and Social Reform in the 1830s and 1840s
1. Reproductive Body, Part I: Women's Work and The Biology of Reproduction
2. Reproductive Body, Part II: The Tasks of Social Reproduction
3. Gender, the Poor Law, and the Ambiguity of the Able-Bodied Worker
Pt. 2. Living in the Body: Women's Experiences of Health and Illness
4. Evidence of the Body: Poor Women and Medical Cultures
5. Testing the Reproductive Hypothesis: Women's Illnesses, the Environment, and Menstruation
6. Health and the Material Conditions of Home: Sanitation, Poverty, and Domesticity
7. "Rather a Hard Life": Domestic Relationships and Health at Home
8. "She Continued at Her Work": Negotiating Employment and Health
Conclusion: The Politics of Women's Health and Work.