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Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table Of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Between Tradition and Change -- Through the Eyes of a Settler's Wife: Letters From the Moshava -- Literature by Women of the First Aliyah: The Aspiration for Women's Renaissance in Eretz Israel -- Yemenite Jewish Women-Between Tradition and Change -- Women of the Labor Movement -- Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Sejera -- The Women's Farm at Kinneret, 1911-19I7:A Solution to the Problem of the Working Womanin the Second Aliyah* -- Fragments of Life: From the Diaries of Two Young Women -- A Woman Alone: The Artist Ira Jan as Writer in Eretz Yisrael -- The Women Workers' Movement: First Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel -- From Revolution to Motherhood: The Case of Women in the Kibbutz, 1910-1948 -- Human Being or Housewife: The Status ofWomen in the Jewish Working Class Family in Palestine of the 1920s and 1930s -- Women's Rights, Women's Spheres -- On the Way to Equality? The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in the Jewish Yishuv, 1917-1926 -- The Fringes of the Margin: Women's Organizations in the Civic Sector of the Yishuv -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Thomas Fresh : the first environmental health practitioner / Norman Parkinson -- 3. Sir John Simon : a role model for public health practice? / Alan Page -- 4. John Snow : a pioneer in epidemiology / Hugh Thomas -- 5. Sir Joseph Bazalgette : a man of persistence and vision / Alan Page -- 6. George Smith of Coalville ('the children's friend') : campaigner for factory and canal boats legislation / Susan Lammin -- 7. Duncan of Liverpool : the first medical officer of health / Stephen Battersby -- 8. Margaret McMillan : advocate and practitioner of improvements in children's health / Susan Lammin -- 9. George Cadbury and corporate social responsibility : working conditions, housing, education, and food policy / Zena Lynch and Surindar Dhesi -- 10. Charles Booth's inquiry : poverty, poor housing, and legacies for environmental health / Matthew Clough -- 11. Christopher Addison : health visionary, man of war, parliamentarian, and practical pioneer / William Hatchett -- 12. Margery Spring Rice : throwing light on hidden misery / Deirdre Mason -- 13. Berthold Lubtekin : 'nothing is too good for ordinary people' / Ellis Turner -- 14. Conclusions.

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