Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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Adelson, Leslie A.
Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German History
(Nebraska UP, 1993).
Hardback. Spine sun-faded otherwise very good. xvi + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-C8707
Keywords: 0803210361, feminism, feminists, women, Germans, Nazis, Jews, ethnicity, race, racism, race, twentieth century, 20th, Germany, history
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Roberts, Elizabeth.
Women and Families: an Oral History, 1940-1970
(Blackwell, 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. xi + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-C1563
Keywords: 9780631196136, women's history, oral history, women, North-West Regional Studies Centre, families, Lancaster, Barrow, Preston, Lancashire, social history, working class, domesticity, neighbourhood, community, Britain, British, England, English, history, family
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Parker, Rozsika.
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
(Women's Press Ltd, rpt, 1989).
Illustrated. Paperback. Covers slightly discoloured, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C13728
Keywords: 0704338831, embroidery, embroiderers, history, women, sewing, hobbies, crafts, female identity, femininity, chastity, fertility, domesticity, samplers, embroidering, stitchery, needlework
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Walkerdine, Valerie and Lucey, Helen.
Democracy in the Kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters
(Virago, 1989).
Paperback. With a newspaper review and letter pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise good condition. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C15803
Keywords: 9781853810343, mothers, daughters, family, domesticity, class, gender, democracy
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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Holdsworth, Angela.
Out of the Doll's House: The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century
(BBC, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C3627
Keywords: 0563206314, women's history, women's movement, domesticity, family, motherhood, fashion, social history, women and work, home, twentieth century, 20th century, work, womens, Angela Holdsworth
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Cott, Nancy F.; Boydston, J.; Braude, A., eds.
Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women
(Northeastern UP, 2nd edition, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xxi + 440pp. Order No. NSBK-C2419
Keywords: 0930350952, American, United States, USA, American women, social history, domesticity, women and work
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Rothman, Sheila M.
Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present
(Basic Books Inc).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiv + 322pp. Order No. NSBK-C12563
Keywords: 0465092039, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, domestic, domesticity, homes, housewife, housewifery, houses, roles
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