Women and Welfare - Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service (Hardcover)

The aim of this study is to explain why some middle-class Victorian women took up various kinds of public social service, as social workers, researchers or reformers. The conventions of the time made it difficult for women to move out of family into public life and the nature of the work they chose demanded great physical and mental courage and endurance. The author examines the family and social background and the individual character of ten famous nineteenth-century women to try to identify the social circumstances and personal qualities that encouraged their social service activities and relates her findings to the problems faced by women of the present who endeavour to combine family responsibilities and outside employment.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1989
First published:	1989
Authors:	Julia Parker
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-46386-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-333-46386-2
Barcode:	9780333463864

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