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Architecture in the Family Way, Volume 4 - Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (Hardcover)
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Architecture in the Family Way, Volume 4 - Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
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Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period
were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists
and health reformers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the
home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams
reveals that middle-class houses were actually considered poisonous
and dangerous and explores the involvement of physicians in
exposing "unhealthy" architecture and designing improved domestic
environments. She examines the contradictory roles of middle-class
women as both regulators of healthy houses and sources of disease
and danger within their own homes, particularly during childbirth.
Architecture in the Family Way sheds light on an ambiguous period
in the histories of architecture, medicine, and women, revealing it
to be a time of turmoil, not of progress and reform as is often
assumed.
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