Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations ; Notes on contributors ; Editors' note to the paperback edition; Acknowledgements ; 1 Welfare in context ; 2 Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England ; 3 Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 ; 4 Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing ; 5 Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining ; 6 The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s
7 'The children's party, therefore the women's party': the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain8 Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s ; 9 Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; Index
