Title Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution / Lynn McDonald, editor

Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource Series The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 8 Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Works. 2001 ; v. 8. Contents Midwifery -- Prostitution, the contagious diseases acts and the treatment of syphilitic prostitutes -- Women friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Political and social views Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 fast Subject Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century Women's health services -- Great Britain Women's hospitals -- Great Britain Women's health services -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Human beings. Female Humans Homo sapiens (species) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Political and social views Women -- Social conditions Women's health services Women's hospitals Prostitutie. Vrouwen. Verloskundigen. Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books History Personal correspondence Form Electronic book Author McDonald, Lynn, 1940- ISBN 142372478X 9781423724780 0889204667 9780889204669 9780889209169 0889209162

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