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Women and Welfare: Ten Victorian Women in Public Social Service
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1989
- Pages: 220
- Language: English
- Edition: 1989 - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.53in - 0.66lb
- EAN: 9780333463871
- Categories: • Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare• General• Modern - General
About the Author
JULIA PARKER is a Lecturer in Social Administration at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Portrait of Social Work (with Barbara Rodgers), Local Health and Welfare Services and Social Policy and Citizenship.