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portada Beyond the Reproductive Body: Politics of Women's Health & Work in Early Victorian England
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0814251226
ISBN13
9780814251225
Edition No.
1
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Beyond the Reproductive Body: Politics of Women's Health & Work in Early Victorian England

Marjorie Levine-Clark (Author) · Ohio State University Press · Paperback

Beyond the Reproductive Body: Politics of Women's Health & Work in Early Victorian England - Marjorie Levine-Clark

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Synopsis "Beyond the Reproductive Body: Politics of Women's Health & Work in Early Victorian England "

Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, Beyond the Reproductive Body examines women's health in relation to work in early Victorian England. Government officials and reformers investigating the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by gainful employment, making women incapable of reproducing a healthy labor force. Women's work was thus framed as a public health "problem." Poor women were caught between the contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, which supposedly precluded any but domestic labor, and the able body, which dictated that all poor but healthy people must work to stay independent of state assistance. Medical case narratives of female patients show that while official pronouncements emphasized the physical limitations of the female reproductive body, poor women adopted an able-bodied norm. Beyond the Reproductive Body demonstrates the centrality of gender and the body in the formation of Victorian policies concerning employment, public health, and welfare. Focusing on poor women, it challenges historians' customary presentations of Victorian women's delicate health. The medical case narratives give voices to poor women, who have left very few written records of their own. Marjorie Levine-Clark is assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado, Denver.

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