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Architecture in the Family Way : Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565869
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Architecture in the Family WayLOC classification:
  • NA7328 -- .A22 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The International Health Exhibition of 1884 -- 2 Doctors as Architects -- 3 Female Regulation of the Healthy Home -- 4 Childbirth at Home -- 5 Domestic Architecture and Victorian Feminism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The International Health Exhibition of 1884 -- 2 Doctors as Architects -- 3 Female Regulation of the Healthy Home -- 4 Childbirth at Home -- 5 Domestic Architecture and Victorian Feminism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

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