Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Contested Body Politics: Women, Health, and Social Reform in the 1830s and 1840s
Chapter 1: The Reproductive Body, Part I: Women's Work and the Biology of Reproduction
Chapter 2: The Reproductive Body, Part II: The Tasks of Social Reproduction
Chapter 3: Gender, the Poor Law, and the Ambiguity of the Able-Bodied Worker
Part II: Living in the Body: Women's Experiences of Health and Illness
Chapter 4: The Evidence of the Body: Poor Women and Medical Cultures
Chapter 5: Testing the Reproductive Hypothesis: Women's Illnesses, the Environment, and Menstruation
Chapter 6: Health and the Material Conditions of Home: Sanitation, Poverty, and Domesticity
Chapter 7: "Rather a Hard Life": Domestic Relationships and Health at Home
Chapter 8: "She Continued at Her Work": Negotiating Employment and Health
Conclusion: The Politics of Women's Health and Work
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women Health and hygiene Social aspects England History 19th century, Women Health and hygiene Political aspects England History 19th century, Women England Social conditions 19th century, Women Employment England History 19th century, Women employees England History 19th century