Architecture in the family way : doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900 /

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Author / Creator:	Adams, Annmarie.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; v. 4 McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 4.
Subject:	Architecture, Domestic -- Health aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century. Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century. Housing and health -- England -- History -- 19th century. Architecture, Victorian -- England. Architecture and women -- England -- History -- 19th century. Architecture and women. Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects. Architecture, Victorian. Housing and health. Architecture as Topic -- England -- History. History, 19th Century -- England. Health Care Reform -- England. Life Style -- England. Women's Rights -- England -- History. England. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213153

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ISBN:	9780773565869 0773565868 9780773513860 0773513868 1282853791 9781282853799 9786612853791 6612853794
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In this revealing look at the forces influencing domestic life, health, and architecture in Victorian England, Annmarie Adams argues that the many significant changes in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams reveals that middle-class houses were actually considered poisonous and dangerous and explores the involvement of physicians in exposing "unhealthy" architecture and designing improved domestic environments. She examines the contradictory roles of middle-class women as both regulators of healthy houses and sources of disease and danger within their own homes, particularly during childbirth. Architecture in the Family Way sheds light on an ambiguous period in the histories of architecture, medicine, and women, revealing it to be a time of turmoil, not of progress and reform as is often assumed.
Other form:	Print version: Adams, Annmarie. Architecture in the family way. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996

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