| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 8
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Works. 2001 ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Midwifery -- Prostitution, the contagious diseases acts and the treatment of syphilitic prostitutes -- Women friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Political and social views.
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. |
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Political and social views. |
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Correspondence.
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| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. |
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Pensée politique et sociale. |
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Correspondance. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Women's health services -- Great Britain.
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Women's health services. |
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Women's hospitals -- Great Britain.
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Women's hospitals. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
McDonald, Lynn, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2005 0889204659 (OCoLC)61127992 |
| ISBN |
142372478X (electronic book) |
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9781423724780 (electronic book) |
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0889204667 |
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9780889204669 |
| Standard No. |
9786610280810 |
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