Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution
By: Lynn McDonald, editor.
Contributors: McDonald, Lynn.
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale -- vol. 8.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterloo, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1085
ISBN-13: 9780889204669
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Political and social views.; Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Correspondence.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Women's hospitals -- Great Britain.; Women's health services -- Great Britain.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale's work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ('Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions'), her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts (attempts to stop the legislation and otherwise to facilitate the voluntary treatment of syphilitic prostitutes), her views on gender roles, marriage and measures for income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Correspondents include old family friends, royal and notable personages, nuns and colleagues in various causes. Most of this material has not been published before and some letters wil be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.