Women and Children First Book

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Preface and acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Some international features of maternal mortality, 1880-1950	5
2	Maternity care and the threat of puerperal fever in Sydney, 1870-1939	29
3	Mothers, babies and hospitals: 'The London' and the provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939	48
4	The medicalization of motherhood: doctors and infant welfare in the Netherlands, 1901-1930	74
5	'The infant soldier': early child welfare efforts in Ontario	97
6	'Why does Congress wish women and children to die?': the rise and fall of public maternal and infant health care in the United States, 1921-1929	121
7	Ephemeral lives: the unremitting infant mortality of colonial Burma, 1891-1941	133
8	Women and the state: maternal and child welfare in colonial Malaya, 1900-1940	154
9	'Getting close to the hearts of mothers': medical missionaries among African women and children in Johannesburg between the wars	178
10	'Dangerous motherhood': maternity care and the gendered construction of Afrikaner identity, 1904-1939	203
11	'That welfare warfare': sectarianism in infant welfare in Australia, 1918-1939	230
12	The costs of modern motherhood to low income families in interwar Britain	257
	Bibliography	281
	Index	299