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Women and Welfare: Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service

Women and Welfare: Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service

Parker, Julia

Hardcover

Series: Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service

General SociologyGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0333463862
ISBN13: 9780333463864
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Mar 15 1989
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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