Author : Charles Ansell
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Charles Ansell
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1874
Category :
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Author : Eilidh Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1351155628
In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading academics to evaluate Newman's critical contribution, to review current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality, especially in Britain, and to discuss modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. The volume argues that, even after 100 years of health programmes, scientific advances and medical interventions, early childhood mortality is still a significant social problem and it also proposes new ways of defining and tracking the problem of persistent mortality differentials.
Author : J. E. Meade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489965807
Author : Martha Vicinus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1135043884
First published in 1977, this book is a companion volume to Suffer and Be Still. It looks at the widening sphere of women’s activities in the Victorian age and testifies to the dual nature of the legal and social constraints of the period: on the one hand, the ideal of the perfect lady and the restrictive laws governing marriage and property posed limits to women’s independence; on the other hand, some Victorian women chose to live lives of great variety and complexity. By uncovering new data and reinterpreting old, the contributors in this volume debunk some of the myths surrounding the Victorian woman and alter stereotypes on which many of today’s social customs are based.
Author : J A Banks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040148301
First Published in 1954, Prosperity and Parenthood is a study of Victorian middle-class ideas about the standard of living, marriage, and the responsibilities of family life. The book begins by tracing the fall in fertility in the 1870s to a change in the middle-class conception of parenthood and goes on to show that the standard of living considerably expanded during the period of great prosperity, roughly 1850 to 1870. The author also gives a detailed study of what the middle classes considered appropriate for a civilized existence and ends by considering the “Great Depression” as a possible factor attacking the actual level of living and making it possible for the middle classes to maintain established standards only by cutting down the size of their families. This is an important historical reference work for students and scholars of sociology, sociology of family, British sociology, social history, and medical sociology.
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Medicine
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Author : Joyce Senders Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351181661
Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close, it reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level, whether as between the sexes, classes, or ethnic groups. Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view, a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite.
Author : Robert Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2000-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521782548
The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancy. But Robert Woods also considers the variable quality of the Victorian registration system; the changing role of what Robert Malthus termed the preventive check; variations in occupational mortality and the development of the twentieth-century class mortality gradient; and the effects of urbanisation associated with the significance of distinctive disease environments. The volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areas. This invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colour.
Author : Simon Szreter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528689
This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.
