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
Price £24.00.
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Russell, Meg.
Must Politics Disappoint:
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 614. Paperback. Pages wavy, pages and covers soiled, poor - a working copy only. vi + +63pp. Order No. NSBK-A10127
Keywords: 071630614X, politics, socialism, socialists, Fabianism, Fabians, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Hite, Shere.
The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
(Bloomsbury, 1994).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xxiv + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-C13712
Keywords: 0747514801, patriarchy, patriarchal, Hite Report, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th
Price £10.00.
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Lloyd, Sarah.
An Indian Attachment:
(Eland, rpt., 1984).
Paperback. Spine sun-faded, otherwise very good. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A7079
Keywords: 0907871127, Indian, India, Asia, Asian, Sikhs, rural, villages, Punjabi, holy-man, travel, travellers, travelers, holy-men, love stories, love story, romance, twentieth century, 20th
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Horn, Susan Householder Van.
Women, Work and Fertility, 1900-1986:
(New York UP, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped, slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xi + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A12338
Keywords: 0814787592, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, fertility, children, child, babies, motherhood, baby, contraception, work, women's work, women and work
Price £19.00.
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Noble, Peter.
British Theatre:
(British Yearbooks, 1946?).
Foreword by Laurence Olivier. Hardback. Corners rubbed, otherwise very good. 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A3887
Keywords: B0006D9566, theatre, stage, drama, dramatic, history, Britain, British, England, English, theater, blackout, twentieth century,
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Styler, W. E.
Adult Education and Political Systems:
(Univ of Nottingham, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A8342
Keywords: 1850410003, adult education, politics, political thought, twentieth century, 20th, Liberal First World Democracies, Communists, Communism, Developing Countries
Price £10.90.
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Paterson, Donald and Smith, J. Forest.
Modern Methods of Feeding in Infancy and Childhood:
(Constable, 7th edition, reprint, 1942).
Hardback. Boards slightly bowed / soiled, with some splitting internally at binding, otherwise a good working copy. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-A7703
Keywords: infancy, childhood, children, infants, feeding, mothers, maternity, motherhood, breast feeding, history, infant foods, medicine, medical, health, sick children, breast milk, artificial feeding, Britain, British, England, English, social history, twentieth century, advice books, diets, baby, babies, bringing up babies
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McAuley, Rob.
The Liners: A Voyage of Recovery
(Boxtree, 1997).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good+ in bright dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10575
Keywords: 0752210580, liners, ships, engineering, shipbuilding, sea, coasts, Britain, British, England, English, construction, cruises, holidays, oceans, travel, travelers, travellers, steam, immigrants, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 19th, 20th
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Fletcher, Sheila.
Women First: The Female Tradition in English Physical Education, 1880-1980
(The Athlone Press, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C6593
Keywords: 0485120461, female tradition, England, English, Britain, British, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, sports, sporting, physical, Sheila Fletcher, women's sports, teaching, PE, P.E., Bedford High Schools, children, childhood, Bedford Physical Training College, child, girlhood, girls
Price £12.00.
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