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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Jones, Helen, ed.
Duty and Citizenship: the Correspondence and Papers of Violet Markham, 1896-1953
(The Historians' Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. vi + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C3649
Keywords: 9781872273037, Violet Markham, women, work, duty, citizenship, suffrage, anti-suffrage, Votes for Women, anti-suffragism, suffragettes, Edwardian, war, World War I, Great War, First World War, Home Front, citizens, Liberals, local politics, Liberal politics, twentieth century, letters, Helen Jones
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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Johnson, Peter, ed.
The Structure of British Industry:
(Unwin Hyman, 2nd edit., 1988).
Paperback. Some creasing/fading to spine -otherwise good. xi + 401pp. Order No. NSBK-A9819
Keywords: 0043381464, Britain, British, England, English, history, structure, agriculture, North Sea oil, gas, coal, steel, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres, information technology, motor vehicles, food processing, construction, retailing, rail transport, domestic air transport, domestic air transport, insurance, medical care, tourism, twentieth century, 20th
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Mama, Amina.
The Hidden Struggle: Statutory and Voluntary Sector Responses to Violence Against Black Women in the Home
(London Race and Housing Research Unit, 1989).
Paperback. Very good condition. xvi + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C15789
Keywords: 9780951483329, London Race and Housing Research Unit, race, ethnicity, black women, domestic violence, abuse
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Smart, Carol, ed.
Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Book reviews pasted to back endpapers, otherwise good+. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C6011
Keywords: 0415074053, women, woman, women's history, law, social policy, marriage, motherhood and sexuality, gender, nineteenth, twentieth, century, Victorian, European, Europe, America, American, United States, history, mothers, parenthood, maternal, unmarried mothers, illegitimacy, illegitimate, feminism, feminists, property, children, childhood, social work, wifebeating, domestic violence, wives, wife, marital, law, legal, citizenship
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Feminism and the Family in England, 1880-1939:
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Out-of-print paperback. Paperback. Scattered ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C5789
Keywords: 0631167366, feminism, women, history, family, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, twentieth century, domestic, domesticity, marriage, sexuality, private sphere, separate spheres, economic, reproduction, childbirth, childcare, families
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Mace, Jane.
Playing with Time: Mothers and the Meaning of Literacy
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xiii + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-C8834
Keywords: 1857288912, mothers, motherhood, women, children, child, literacy, education, educational, maternal, reading, writing, grandmothers, domestic, adult literacy, family, families
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Allison, J. Murray.
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War: Volume I: The First Twelve Months of the War
(John Lane, 1919).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, original cloth rather soiled / darkened, occasion soiling to pages, else good. xv + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14991
Keywords: B000Q9R9A4, humour, comedy, comic, humorous, World War I, Great War, World War One, history, Western Front, trench warfare, cartoons, Raemaekers, art, artists
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