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Social History of Medicine 1988 1(1):39-59; doi:10.1093/shm/1.1.39
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The Health Visitor as Mother's Friend: A Woman's place in public health, 1900–14

CELIA DAVIES*

*Professor of Women's Opportunities, University of Ulster Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland

This paper traces aspects of the turn-of-the century debate about health visiting as an appropriate form of public health work for women. Far from simply demonstrating women's progress in achieving a place beside men in the publlic sphere of employment, health visiting, it will be argued, provides a particularly interesting case-study of the struggle between the sexes to define the contribution which women might appropriately make. Three quite different models of woman's place are identified, and a range of reactions, not least those of the women involed, are discussed and analysed.

Keywords: domesticity; health visiting; philanthropy; public health work; sanitary inspection; separate spheres; women's work


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