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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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
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Ware, Vron.
Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History
(Verso, 1992).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good condition. xviii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C15660
Keywords: 9781784780128, racism, ethnicity, history, slavery, Empire
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Greene, Lorenzo J and Woodson, Carter G.
The Negro Wage Earner:
(Russell and Russell, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped. xiii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A11868
Keywords: 0404001637, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, black history, Black, ethnicity, twentieth century, wages, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, pay
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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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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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Wainwright, A. Martin.
The Better Class of Indians: Social Rank, Imperial Identity, and South Asians in Britain, 1858-1914
(MUP, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A14523
Keywords: 0719076668, South Asians, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, imperialism, colonialism, social rank, national identity, ethnic identity, Asians in Britain, class, ethnicity, British identity, Victorian, 19th century, Edwardian
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Greenidge, C.W.W.
Slavery:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1958).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-H14310
Keywords: B001OXSOPU, slavery, ethnicity, black history, slaves
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Giles, Judy.
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50:
(Macmillan, 1995).
Hardback. With a newspaper article pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-C15586
Keywords: 9780312126247, women, private life, domesticity, gender, identity, Britain, British, England, British, Judy Giles, suburbia, respectability, twentieth century, social history, oral history
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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