Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution /
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 regulati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Collected works of Florence Nightingale ;
v. 8. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xvi, 1085 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :) : illustrations, digital fil |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780889209169 |