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

By:

Adams, Annmarie

Material type: Text

TextSeries: McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 4.Publication details: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773565869
0773565868
1282853791
9781282853799
9786612853791
6612853794

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Architecture in the family way.DDC classification:

728/.01/03

LOC classification:

NA7328 .A22 1996eb

NLM classification:

W1
WA 795

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Contents:

The International Health Exhibition of 1884 -- Doctors as Architects -- Female regulation of the healthy home -- childbirth at Home -- Domestic architecture and Victorian Feminism.

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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index.

The International Health Exhibition of 1884 -- Doctors as Architects -- Female regulation of the healthy home -- childbirth at Home -- Domestic architecture and Victorian Feminism.

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