Welfare in context / Anne Digby and John Stewart -- Excess female mortality : constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England / Sheila Ryan Johansson -- Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 / Anne Digby -- Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing / Caroline Morrell -- Late nineteenth-century philanthropy : the case of Louisa Twining / Theresa Deane -- The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s / Lesley Hoggart -- "The children's party, therefore the women's party" : the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain / John Stewart -- Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s / Pat Thane -- Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jane Lewis
Notes
Papers from a conference held at the Humanities Research Centre of Oxford Brookes University, in November 1993
