Excess female mortality: Constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England1

Gender, Health and Welfare

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 32-66

  Johansson, Sheila Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203026069-2     Document Type: Chapter

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