TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1988//
TI  - The health visitor as mother's friend: a woman's place in public health, 1900-14
JO  - Social history of medicine
A1  - Davies, Celia
SP  - 39
EP  - 59
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0951-631X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/1.1.39
ID  - ref1
ER  -