Elaine Stratford

Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal

Geographies of the Interior and of Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how ideas about bodies, homes, and nature were deployed to serve three interrelated imperatives: the healthy population, the nation, and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an analysis of archive material it explores how the role of women in 'progressive' reform was a form of governmentality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781783485093
• ISBN-10: 1783485094
• Artikelnr.: 42809539

Autorenporträt

Elaine Stratford is Professor and Director of the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment at the University of Tasmania.

Inhaltsangabe

(1) 'Her first duty' - beauty
morality
and the gilded cage / (2)'To maintain vigour' - population
fitness
and race / (3) 'The song of the skirt' - raw nature and fashionable conduct / (4) 'Good breeding' - combatting the decline of the population / (5) 'The hand that rocks the cradle' - scientific mothers and strong babies / (6) 'Cleanliness is next to godliness' - health
habit
and domestic economy / (7) 'We do hereby authorise and require' - contagion
public health
and a return to home. / Synthesis / Bibliography