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Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914 (review)

passion (be it the passion of love, hatred, or honor, or even political passion) was categorized as a pathology, although the demonstration of passion was viewed as positive, human behavior. Passion, like other diseases, became an extenuating circumstance in the commission of a crime, especially if the criminal showed the requisite remorse. Nonetheless, it was increasingly decried as a Latin failing, a hindrance to rationality and a threat to political health. Ruggiero emphasizes the gendered dimension of many of the modernist medical ideas. Women who committed infanticide were defined as unnatural and monstrous, for they had rejected motherhood, an integral part of every female’s nature. Nervous exhaustion in women was classified as hysteria and seen as the result of a wandering uterus; in men, the same disease was called neurasthenia and was closely linked to overtaxing the intellect. This book is a fine study of the interaction between law and medicine in issues central to modernization, nationalism, society, and development. It deserves a wide audience.