women, religion and public life in Britain 1800-1930
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Summers, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B639 - B
- Thesaurus
- gevangenissen, verpleegkundigen, religieuzen, industrialisatie, biografische gegevens, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Using the 'exemplary lives' of Elizabeth Fry, Josephine Butler and Florence Nigtingale, together with detailed histories of prison reform, the professionalisation of nursing, the religious sisterhood moverment and campaigns against the double standard of sexual morality, Summers demonstrates and analyses the interweaving of religious, political and medical discources in the construction of new female roles.