Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England /
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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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s
- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction
- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction
- 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
- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures
- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation
- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity
- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home
- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health
- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.