Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850 - 1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in browned dustwrapper. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C15640
Keywords: 9780333432969, homeworker, labour work, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, workforce, domestic, domesticity, working women, pennington, westover, sweated labour, housework, tailoring, tailor, tailoring industry, 19th century
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Iacovetta, Franca and Valverde, Mariana, eds.
Gender Conflicts:
(Toronto UP, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xxvii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C9855
Keywords: 9780802067739, gender, women, men, American, America, USA, United States, Women's Political League, Toronto, Jewish, Jews, Canada, Canadian, ethnicity, ethnic, racism, race, twentieth century, 20th
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Kauffman, Linda, ed.
Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism
(Basil Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Good. x + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C8580
Keywords: 0631163565, feminism, feminists, gender, theory, history of ideas, women's studies, women's history, theories, race, class, ethnicity, authors, readers, writers, critics, feminization
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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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Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
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Szasz, Margaret Connell. ed.
Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker
(Oklahoma Press, 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A12329
Keywords: 0806125950, Indian, India, Asia, Asian, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, ethnicity, race, cultural brokers
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Harriott, Jacqueline.
Black Women in Britain:
(B. T. Batsford, 1992).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C6245
Keywords: 0713462868, black women, Britain, British, England, English, woman, females, gender, ethnicity, race, work, education, trade unions, armed forces, health service, community, writing, women writers, history, immigrants, immigration, racism, sociology, twentieth century
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Lichtenstein, Diane.
Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers
(Indiana UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. x + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A2808
Keywords: 0253333466, Jewish, ethnicity, Judaism, Jewishness, literature, novel, Emma Lazarus, Rebekah Hyneman, Penina Moise, Emma Wolf, America, United States, USA, 0 253 33346 6
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