Clendinning, Anne.
Demons of Domesticity: A History of Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889-1939
(Ashgate, 2004).
Modern Economic and Social History Series. Hardback. A little bumping to corners, otherwise very good+. xvii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A14010
Keywords: 0754606929, women workers, gas, gas industry, history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, power, energy, industries, occupations, employment, consumers, consumerism, domesticity
Price £58.95.
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Kessler-Harris, Alice.
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
(OUP, rpt., 1983).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-C7944
Keywords: 0195033531, women, woman, women's history, women and work, women's work, American, America, USA, United States, wages, money, economy, economic, nineteenth, twentieth, 19th, 20th, feminism, feminists, colonial, family, domesticity
Price £5.00.
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Filbee, Marjorie.
A Woman's Place: an Illustrated History of Women at Home, From the Roman Villa to the Victorian Town House
(Ebury Press, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C3580
Keywords: 0852231547, women, history, home, domesticity, gender, Britain, British, England, English, household
Price £11.99.
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
Price £29.00.
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Thomas, Mary Martha.
The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920
(Alabama UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. viii + 269pp. Order No. NSBK-C6710
Keywords: 0817305645, Mary Martha Thomas, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, women's rights, rights of women, women and politics, suffrage, suffragists, suffragettes, The New Woman, gender, Sourthern lady, Southern belle, black women, white women, domesticity, child labour, child labor, Mary Martha Thomas, educational reform, temperance, clubs, organisations, associations, race, racism, America, USA, United States, public debate, American
Price £8.00.
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Baroda, The Marahani of & Mitra, S. M.
The Position of Women in Indian Life:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1911).
A sustained comparison of all aspects of women's experience in Britain and India before World War I. Has a short section on women's experiences in Japan. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards (front and rear) faded / worn, internally a good copy. 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C5563
Keywords: B000KL5J4G, India, Indian, The Marahani, Indian subcontinent, Asia, Asian, suffrage, women's movement, twentieth century, Edwardian, nineteenth century, Victorian, eighteenth century, women and work, professions, agriculture, domesticity, arts and crafts, education, philanthropy, domestic science, sanitary inspectors, health, factory inspectors, matrons, superintendants, co-operation, doctors, nurses, medicine, money lending, women's history, woman, charity, employment, labour, labor, sweated trades, prison reform, crime, criminals, Japan, women in Japan, law, legal, Lancashire, comparative history, Empire, Imperial, Imperialism, colonial history, colonialism, women's history, twentieth century, Indian women
Price £17.00.
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
Price £7.00.
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Pennington, Shelley & Westover, Belinda.
A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850-1985
(Macmillan, 1989).
Paperback. A little soiling / light marking to covers, otherwise very good. xi + 191pp. Order No. NSBK-C1983
Keywords: 0333432975, 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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Charles, Lindsey & Duffin, Lorna, eds.
Women and Work in Pre-industrial England:
(Croom Helm, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C2988
Keywords: 0709908563, women, work, pre-industrial England, London, Shrewsbury, Salisbury, domesticity, 0 7099 0856 3, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Adam, Ruth.
A Woman's Place, 1910-1975:
(Chatto & Windus, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly creased dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C5171
Keywords: 0701121211, woman, women's history, social history, twentieth century, emancipation, liberation, sexual revolution, marriage, wives, mothers, domesticity, Britain, British, England, English, UK, United Kingdom, Gender, Gender studies, 20th century
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