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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England /
Published 2004Table 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.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel -- Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall -- Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities -- A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure -- To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.…”
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Hunting and Fishing in the New South : Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War /
Published 2008“…Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;…”
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The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914 /
Published 2019“…Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;…”
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The Citizen's Body : Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Narrating the Citizen of the Social. The Political Novel and the Social -- The Social Novel's Leaky Bodies -- Felix Holt: The Desiring Body in the Later Political Novel.…”
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Victims' State : War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 /
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Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India /
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