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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Redfern, Catherine and Aune, Kristin.
Reclamiing the F Word: the New Feminist Movement
(Zed Books, 2010).
Paperback. Newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. viii + 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C15739
Keywords: 9781848133952, feminist movement, feminism
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Broughton, Trev Lynn & Anderson, Linda.
Women's Lives / Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/biography
(New York UP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-C3077
Keywords: 9780791433980, women writers, autobiography, biography, auto/biography, theory
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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Hart, Clive.
An Admonition to the Students of Wittenberg: A Supplement to a New Argument Against Women, the Disputatio Nova Contra Mulieres of 1595
(Gilliland Press, 2000).
In pamphlet form. New book, fine. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A2960
Keywords: 0953786706, student, Wittenberg, women, argument, admonition, mulieres, Acidalius, Gedik, Hunnius, Lutheranism, soul, pamphlet
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Jackowska, Nicki.
Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 1998).
Paperback. Bottom cover bumped, otherwise very good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A9260
Keywords: 1900564114, poems, poets, poetry, Nicki Jackowska, literary, literature, women's history
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Perryman, Nigel.
Brave New Britain: Francis Frith's Method of Post-War Life
(Frith Book Company, 2002).
Hardback. Good+ with chip to dustwrapper. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-A12264
Keywords: 1859375642, Francis Frith, post war, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photographs, pictures, images
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Weaver, Mary Jo.
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C5027
Keywords: 0253209935, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, women, woman, history, reloigion, religious, Roman Catholic, Americ, American, United States, USA
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A New World for Women: Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist
(Pluto, 2nd impress., 1978).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers yellowed and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C1584
Keywords: 0904383547, socialism, feminism, Stella Browne, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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