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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Pitchfork, Graham.
Men Behind the Medals:
(Leo Cooper, 1998).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-A9376
Keywords: 0850525861, military, armies, wars, warfare, aircrew, RAF, Royal Air Force, wartime, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th
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Aiken, Lucy.
Epistles on Women: Exemplifying Their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations, With Miscellaneous Poems
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003 reprint of 1810 text).
Number 5 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Paperback. New book, fine. 114pp. Order No. NSBK-C6503
Keywords: Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, poems, poetry, poets, poetess, writer, writers, woman writer, women writers, Lucy Aiken, Aiken, epistles, Women, epistle, correspondence, letters, sexuality, nineteenth century, Georgian, Regency, 19th century, women's history, literature, Open Archive Occasional Series, nationhood, nations, Warrington
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Lovell, Terry, ed.
British Feminist Thought: A Reader
(Basil Blackwell, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. ix + 385pp. Order No. NSBK-C12333
Keywords: 0631169148, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th
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Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.
Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874
(Yale UP, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-C9223
Keywords: 0300047770, Boston, America, American, United States, USA, US, Alice Stone Blackwell, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, women writers, woman writer, journals, diaries, diary, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, women's suffrage, suffragettes, women's movement, women's rights
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Shanley, Mary Lyndon and Narayan, Uma, eds.
Reconstucting Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives
(Polity Press, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. xxi + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-C12432
Keywords: 0745617972, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, political theory, politics, history of ideas, twentieth century
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Warner, Marina.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
(Weidenfeld & Nicholson, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Covers creased, corners of rear pages browned and waterstained, otherwise a good working copy. 346pp. Order No. NSBK-C9990
Keywords: medieval, mediaeval, middle ages, Joan of Arc, heroines, French, France, prophets, harlots, martyrs, Catholic, Catholicism, women, woman, women's history, Rouen, fifteenth century, national, mascots
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Melvin, Michael J.
Minesweeper: The Role of the Motor Minesweeper in World War II
(Square One, 1992).
Hardback. Very good copy, in slightly rubbed, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A7520
Keywords: 1872017576, wars, warfare, minesweepers, ships, shipping, World War II, Two, 2, military, navy, Britain, British, England, English, history, Motor Minesweepers, mines, Germans, twentieth century, 20th, naval, shipping, maritime
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Driver, Emily and Droisen, Audrey, eds.
Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Perspectives
(Macmillan, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to inside front and back covers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. ix + 202pp. Order No. NSBK-C11304
Keywords: 0333442458, child sexual abuse, child, children, sex, sexuality, men, women, sex offenders, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, feminists, feminism
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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