Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution
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Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8

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Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8

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Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale's work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ( Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions ), her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts (attempts to stop the legislation and otherwise to facilitate the voluntary treatment of syphilitic prostitutes), her views on gender roles, marriage and measures for income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Correspondents include old family friends, royal and notable personages, nuns and colleagues in various causes. Most of this material has not been published before and some letters wil be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780889209169
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Dramatis Personae
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life
  6. Introduction to Volume 8
  7. Key to Editing
  8. Nightingale on Women
  9. Midwifery
  10. Prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Acts and the Treatment of Syphilitic Prostitutes
  11. Women Friends, Relatives, Colleagues and Acquaintances
  12. Appendixes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index