Beyond the reproductive body
Subtitle: the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England
By: Marjorie Levine-Clark.
Series: Women and health; Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
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.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.