Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population beca

Jane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

Jane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

This book examines the development and changes that occur in the reproductive system of both sexes--from conception through puberty and adulthood.