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Author Oakley, Ann, author

Title Women, peace and welfare : a suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920 / Ann Oakley
Edition 1st
Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 442 pages) : illustration s
Contents Intro; WOMEN, PEACE AND WELFARE; Contents; Sources for illustrations; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Legacies of difficult women: the story of this book; 2. Imagining the good society: from economic facts to utopian fictions; 3. Settlement sociology: discovering social science; 4. Municipal housekeeping: women clean up the cities; 5. Sanitary science: putting the science into housework; 6. 'Peace is too small a word for all this': women peace makers; 7. 'Our cosmic patriotism': diversity and the dangers of nationalism; 8. Deeds, not words: women reformers and healthcare
9. Dangerous trades: reforming industrial labour10. Domestic relations: female attachments, homes, and the trouble with marriage; 11. New deals: women reformers in the 1920s and 1930s; 12. Ways of forgetting: women reformers as missing persons; Appendix: list of women reformers; Notes; Index
Summary Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries, driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism. Ann Oakley uses the women's stories to bring together the histories of social reform, social science, welfare and pacifism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women -- Western countries -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women -- Western countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Social change -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century
Social change -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social change
Women -- Social conditions
Western countries
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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