{"product_id":"beyond-the-reproductive-body-politics-of-womens-health-work-in-early-victorian-england-9780814251225","title":"Beyond the Reproductive Body: Politics of Women's Health \u0026 Work in Early Victorian England","description":"Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Reproductive Body\u003c\/i\u003e examines women's health in relation to work in early Victorian England. Government officials and reformers investigating the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by gainful employment, making women incapable of reproducing a healthy labor force. Women's work was thus framed as a public health \"problem.\" Poor women were caught between the contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, which supposedly precluded any but domestic labor, and the able body, which dictated that all poor but healthy people must work to stay independent of state assistance. Medical case narratives of female patients show that while official pronouncements emphasized the physical limitations of the female reproductive body, poor women adopted an able-bodied norm. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Reproductive Body\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the centrality of gender and the body in the formation of Victorian policies concerning employment, public health, and welfare. Focusing on poor women, it challenges historians' customary presentations of Victorian women's delicate health. The medical case narratives give voices to poor women, who have left very few written records of their own. \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Levine-Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado, Denver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marjorie Levine-Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.72w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814251225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2004 pg. 554\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40180672168051,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1c516d14-81b2-4201-855f-b221b9ef74e1.jpg?v=1655471779","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/beyond-the-reproductive-body-politics-of-womens-health-work-in-early-victorian-england-9780814251225","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}