HIST 3205 Dr. Dietz Lown, Judy. Women and Industrialization: Gender at Work in Nineteenth-century England. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. Reviewer: CHEN Tianpei, 13254146 “Women question” arose with the Industrial Revolution, which was debated hotly on what the role of women should play when a society went through an enormous material transformation. In this book Lown chooses to focus on one case study that rebuilds and observes the forming and the development of the mechanized silk weaving mill
with mental illness to enter the general prison population. In the report, “Mental Illness at Reception into Prison”, Luke Birmingham and his colleagues discuss the flaws in the mental screening process and attempt to find ways to improve it. The study found that “while one in four men entering prison on remand suffered from some form of mental disorder, the prison reception screen failed to identify over three-quarters of them” (Birmingham et al.) This statistic indicates an apparent flaw in the
institutions and norms dominated by men. A very important characteristic of feminism is that it tries to integrate practise and theory. This recognised desirability has led many feminists to gravitate towards law and legal reform as objects of study and action. The fact that feminism has its impact can be well noticed in the huge influx of women into the law schools beginning in the
Women in regressive and unfortunate cultural beliefs have been considered subordinate to men. So we are on the 69th rank on gender inequality index out of 146 countries. We have issues on infant mortality front, empowerment, employment segregation, wage disparity and education attainment. 48 out of every 100,000 woman die delivering their babies. According to a 2008 report, Thai men earn 8.78% higher than the woman even though they reported to have worked harder and longer than me. Here the