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Women, Peace and Welfare
A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920
- 368 pages
- English
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About this book
Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare and competition.
Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover this previously hidden cast of forgotten characters. She uses the women's stories to bring together the histories of social reform, social science, welfare and pacifism.
Her fascinating account reveals how their efforts, connected through thriving transnational networks, lie behind many features of modern welfare states and reminds us of their powerful vision of a more humane way of living – a vision that remains relevant today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Sources for illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- ONE: Legacies of difficult women: the story of this book
- TWO: Imagining the good society: from economic facts to utopian fictions
- THREE: Settlement sociology: discovering social science
- FOUR: Municipal housekeeping: women clean up the cities
- FIVE: Sanitary science: putting the science into housework
- SIX: ‘Peace is too small a word for all this’: women peace makers
- SEVEN: ‘Our cosmic patriotism’: diversity and the dangers of nationalism
- EIGHT: Deeds, not words: women reformers and healthcare
- NINE: Dangerous trades: reforming industrial labour
- TEN: Domestic relations: female attachments, homes, and the trouble with marriage
- ELEVEN: New deals: women reformers in the 1920s and 1930s
- TWELVE: Ways of forgetting: women reformers as missing persons
- Appendix: list of women reformers
- Notes