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Maternity: Letters from Working-Women
Women's Co-operative Guild
Twenty years of child-bearing, out of bed on the third day, a half-starved pregnancy: the chapter titles are the letters themselves. Working women of the Co-operative Guild wrote frankly in 1915 about maternity in poverty, and their collected voices helped change British health policy. Testimony, not theory, and unforgettable for it. Let the mothers speak.
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194 chapters
- 1MATERNITY LETTERS FROM WORKING-WOMEN
- 2PREFACE BY THE RIGHT HON. HERBERT SAMUEL, M.P.
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES
- 5INTRODUCTION
- 6LETTERS FROM WORKING-WOMEN.
- 71. Twenty Years of Child-Bearing.
- 82. “Out of Bed on the Third Day.”
- 93. Hospitals—A Crying Need.
- 104. “All Day Washing and Ironing.”
- 115. A Half-Starved Pregnancy.
- 126. Healthy and Strong.
- 137. “She is Real Ill.”
- 148. Men Need Education.
- 159. Bad Confinements.
- 1610. “I am a Ruined Woman.”
- 1711. “I was Awfully Poor.”
- 1812. “I Dragged about in Misery.”
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