Maria Hewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 254879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Hewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Hewitt |
| SIGNATURE | HEWITT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9799-5187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain: Families, Intergenerational Mobility and the Rise of the Professions , by Laurence Brockliss and Harry Smith
Publishing with a Purpose
Warrior Generation, 1865–1885: Militarism and British Working Class Boys, by Richard Fulton
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place, by Kevin A. Morrison
Under a rather grandiose title, Kevin A. Morrison argues for the ‘essential significance of architectural space and decorative interiors in studying nineteenth century liberalism’ (p. 3); and indeed for ‘the fundamentally reciprocal relationship’ (p. 170) of liberal thought and its compositional spaces. Through four cleverly (if at times tenuously) linked chapters, Morrison discusses the relationship of their workspaces to the thought of John Stu…
Victoria’s Victorians and the Mid-Victorians
How might those who shared an 1819 birthdate be placed in a broader generational context? We
Diary, Autobiography and the Practice of Life History
This chapter explores some of the potentialities and operations of the diary as a mode of life writing, and to consider the nature of its exchanges with other forms of writing of the self. It seeks, in Regenia Gagnier&s;s formulation, to look at diaries as &s;rhetorical projects embedded in concrete material situations&s;, as text, artefact and practice. What is the relationship between diary and autobiography? The traditional answer has been tha…
James Vernon. Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
Two cheers for Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. One for its praiseworthy intent to tackle “a big historical question” (p. xv) and to offer a broad and integrated interpretation, rather than to seek refuge in deconstruction and complication. Another for its boldness in taking on the challenge of doing this in 60,000 words rather than the 260,000 or 620,000 words increasingly normal in our digitally bloated world. But not yet the full …
The Victorian World
With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the 19th century. \n \nThe volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together scholars from History, Literary Studies, Art History, Historical Geography, Historical Sociology, Crimino…
Reading Gladstone, by Ruth Clayton Windscheffel
Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense
Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense Martin Hewitt (bio) From its very outset, Victorian studies has been marked by evasiveness and embarrassment about the chronological limits that define its identity. No one, Richard Price observed in 1990, has ever taken the period qua period seriously. 1 From the foundational classics of the field to the recent surveys of Philip Davis and K. T. Hoppen, the Victorian period has been shaped by a …
Welfare State and Welfare Change
Papanicolaou Test Use Among Reproductive-Age Women at High Risk for Cervical Cancer: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth
Objectives. This study assessed the relationship between risk factors for cervical cancer and Papanicolaou (Pap) test use within the past year among reproductive-age women. Methods. The 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a demographic and reproductive health survey of 10 847 women aged 15 to 44, was analyzed with multiple logistic regression. Results. Of the women, 62% reported having had a Pap test within the past year. Use was significantly…
Attitudes toward Interview Mode and Comparability of Reporting Sexual Behavior by Personal Interview and Audio Computer-assisted Self-interviewing: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growt…
Respondents' attitudes toward audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) relative to personal interviewing and comparability of reporting of the number of sex partners in the past year were assessed using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used. Few women indicated that the personal interview, relative to audio-CASI, provided more honest answers or greater comfort. However, minority gro…
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects? Martin Hewitt Martin Hewitt 1Trinity and All SaintsLeeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 137–161, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.137 Published: 01 January 2001
Confronting the modern city: The Manchester Free Public Library, 1850-80
This article calls for greater attention within urban history to the 'civic economy of the book'. By means of a case study of the Manchester Free Public Library and its context, examining the internal workings of the library system and its impact on the broader cultural life of the city, it is argued that the nineteenth-century public library, if not an especially successful disciplinary institution, may yet have been a significant mechanism of c…
The End of the Welfare State
This paper critically examines claims of a new consensus on welfare and the end of the welfare state. We first review the concept of welfare consensus, concentrating on the idea of welfare pluralism, in particular the relatively neglected distinction between national minimum (base) and extension ladder (superstructure). We then examine these concepts in the 1990s under Conservative and New Labour governments. Important changes to welfare pluralis…
The Travails of Domestic Visiting: Manchester, 1830-70
This article seeks to re-examine mid nineteenth century 'home missionary' activity or domestic visiting. It focuses on Manchester, a typical urban case in that it could boast an almost bewildering array of associations which sponsored such visiting, whose supporters were ever willing to laud the impact of their activities. It argues, however, that closer examination suggests that the feverish activity and public vindications masked deep flaws. Th…
Social movements and social need: Problems With Postmodern Political Theory
A central issue about social movements is whether or not their needs- eg women's, Green's, welfare recipients' - are relevant to society at large; whether their needs are universal or specific. Theorists divide between those stressing the specificity of movement needs and others their universality - a division at the core of debates about postmodem politics. This: article argues that Touraine's, Melucci's and Laclau & Mouffe's accounts maintain a…
Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
Radicalism and the Victorian Working Class: The Case of Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford has an ambivalent status in the canon of nineteenth-century labour history. The unparalleled view of working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century provided by his autobiographical volumes Early days and Passages in the life of a radical , have made him, according to E. P. Thompson, ‘the greatest chronicler of 19th century radicalism’, and ‘essential reading for any Englishman’ These books have been described as two of ‘t…
Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
Welfare State and Welfare Change
The End of the Welfare State
This paper critically examines claims of a new consensus on welfare and the end of the welfare state. We first review the concept of welfare consensus, concentrating on the idea of welfare pluralism, in particular the relatively neglected distinction between national minimum (base) and extension ladder (superstructure). We then examine these concepts in the 1990s under Conservative and New Labour governments. Important changes to welfare pluralis…
Attitudes toward Interview Mode and Comparability of Reporting Sexual Behavior by Personal Interview and Audio Computer-assisted Self-interviewing: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growt…
Respondents' attitudes toward audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) relative to personal interviewing and comparability of reporting of the number of sex partners in the past year were assessed using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used. Few women indicated that the personal interview, relative to audio-CASI, provided more honest answers or greater comfort. However, minority gro…
Confronting the modern city: The Manchester Free Public Library, 1850-80
This article calls for greater attention within urban history to the 'civic economy of the book'. By means of a case study of the Manchester Free Public Library and its context, examining the internal workings of the library system and its impact on the broader cultural life of the city, it is argued that the nineteenth-century public library, if not an especially successful disciplinary institution, may yet have been a significant mechanism of c…
Social movements and social need: Problems With Postmodern Political Theory
A central issue about social movements is whether or not their needs- eg women's, Green's, welfare recipients' - are relevant to society at large; whether their needs are universal or specific. Theorists divide between those stressing the specificity of movement needs and others their universality - a division at the core of debates about postmodem politics. This: article argues that Touraine's, Melucci's and Laclau & Mouffe's accounts maintain a…
Radicalism and the Victorian Working Class: The Case of Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford has an ambivalent status in the canon of nineteenth-century labour history. The unparalleled view of working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century provided by his autobiographical volumes Early days and Passages in the life of a radical , have made him, according to E. P. Thompson, ‘the greatest chronicler of 19th century radicalism’, and ‘essential reading for any Englishman’ These books have been described as two of ‘t…
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects? Martin Hewitt Martin Hewitt 1Trinity and All SaintsLeeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 137–161, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.137 Published: 01 January 2001
Papanicolaou Test Use Among Reproductive-Age Women at High Risk for Cervical Cancer: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth
Objectives. This study assessed the relationship between risk factors for cervical cancer and Papanicolaou (Pap) test use within the past year among reproductive-age women. Methods. The 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a demographic and reproductive health survey of 10 847 women aged 15 to 44, was analyzed with multiple logistic regression. Results. Of the women, 62% reported having had a Pap test within the past year. Use was significantly…
The Travails of Domestic Visiting: Manchester, 1830-70
This article seeks to re-examine mid nineteenth century 'home missionary' activity or domestic visiting. It focuses on Manchester, a typical urban case in that it could boast an almost bewildering array of associations which sponsored such visiting, whose supporters were ever willing to laud the impact of their activities. It argues, however, that closer examination suggests that the feverish activity and public vindications masked deep flaws. Th…
Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
Radicalism and the Victorian Working Class: The Case of Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford has an ambivalent status in the canon of nineteenth-century labour history. The unparalleled view of working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century provided by his autobiographical volumes Early days and Passages in the life of a radical , have made him, according to E. P. Thompson, ‘the greatest chronicler of 19th century radicalism’, and ‘essential reading for any Englishman’ These books have been described as two of ‘t…
Social movements and social need: Problems With Postmodern Political Theory
A central issue about social movements is whether or not their needs- eg women's, Green's, welfare recipients' - are relevant to society at large; whether their needs are universal or specific. Theorists divide between those stressing the specificity of movement needs and others their universality - a division at the core of debates about postmodem politics. This: article argues that Touraine's, Melucci's and Laclau & Mouffe's accounts maintain a…
The End of the Welfare State
This paper critically examines claims of a new consensus on welfare and the end of the welfare state. We first review the concept of welfare consensus, concentrating on the idea of welfare pluralism, in particular the relatively neglected distinction between national minimum (base) and extension ladder (superstructure). We then examine these concepts in the 1990s under Conservative and New Labour governments. Important changes to welfare pluralis…
The Travails of Domestic Visiting: Manchester, 1830-70
This article seeks to re-examine mid nineteenth century 'home missionary' activity or domestic visiting. It focuses on Manchester, a typical urban case in that it could boast an almost bewildering array of associations which sponsored such visiting, whose supporters were ever willing to laud the impact of their activities. It argues, however, that closer examination suggests that the feverish activity and public vindications masked deep flaws. Th…
Confronting the modern city: The Manchester Free Public Library, 1850-80
This article calls for greater attention within urban history to the 'civic economy of the book'. By means of a case study of the Manchester Free Public Library and its context, examining the internal workings of the library system and its impact on the broader cultural life of the city, it is argued that the nineteenth-century public library, if not an especially successful disciplinary institution, may yet have been a significant mechanism of c…
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects
Victorian Studies: Problems and prospects? Martin Hewitt Martin Hewitt 1Trinity and All SaintsLeeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 137–161, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.137 Published: 01 January 2001
Papanicolaou Test Use Among Reproductive-Age Women at High Risk for Cervical Cancer: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth
Objectives. This study assessed the relationship between risk factors for cervical cancer and Papanicolaou (Pap) test use within the past year among reproductive-age women. Methods. The 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a demographic and reproductive health survey of 10 847 women aged 15 to 44, was analyzed with multiple logistic regression. Results. Of the women, 62% reported having had a Pap test within the past year. Use was significantly…
Attitudes toward Interview Mode and Comparability of Reporting Sexual Behavior by Personal Interview and Audio Computer-assisted Self-interviewing: Analyses of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growt…
Respondents' attitudes toward audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) relative to personal interviewing and comparability of reporting of the number of sex partners in the past year were assessed using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used. Few women indicated that the personal interview, relative to audio-CASI, provided more honest answers or greater comfort. However, minority gro…
Welfare State and Welfare Change
Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense
Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense Martin Hewitt (bio) From its very outset, Victorian studies has been marked by evasiveness and embarrassment about the chronological limits that define its identity. No one, Richard Price observed in 1990, has ever taken the period qua period seriously. 1 From the foundational classics of the field to the recent surveys of Philip Davis and K. T. Hoppen, the Victorian period has been shaped by a …
Reading Gladstone, by Ruth Clayton Windscheffel
The Victorian World
With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the 19th century. \n \nThe volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together scholars from History, Literary Studies, Art History, Historical Geography, Historical Sociology, Crimino…
James Vernon. Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
Two cheers for Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. One for its praiseworthy intent to tackle “a big historical question” (p. xv) and to offer a broad and integrated interpretation, rather than to seek refuge in deconstruction and complication. Another for its boldness in taking on the challenge of doing this in 60,000 words rather than the 260,000 or 620,000 words increasingly normal in our digitally bloated world. But not yet the full …
Diary, Autobiography and the Practice of Life History
This chapter explores some of the potentialities and operations of the diary as a mode of life writing, and to consider the nature of its exchanges with other forms of writing of the self. It seeks, in Regenia Gagnier&s;s formulation, to look at diaries as &s;rhetorical projects embedded in concrete material situations&s;, as text, artefact and practice. What is the relationship between diary and autobiography? The traditional answer has been tha…
Victoria’s Victorians and the Mid-Victorians
How might those who shared an 1819 birthdate be placed in a broader generational context? We
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place, by Kevin A. Morrison
Under a rather grandiose title, Kevin A. Morrison argues for the ‘essential significance of architectural space and decorative interiors in studying nineteenth century liberalism’ (p. 3); and indeed for ‘the fundamentally reciprocal relationship’ (p. 170) of liberal thought and its compositional spaces. Through four cleverly (if at times tenuously) linked chapters, Morrison discusses the relationship of their workspaces to the thought of John Stu…
Warrior Generation, 1865–1885: Militarism and British Working Class Boys, by Richard Fulton
Publishing with a Purpose
Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain: Families, Intergenerational Mobility and the Rise of the Professions , by Laurence Brockliss and Harry Smith
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