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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Thwaite, Ann.
Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife
(Faber & Faber, 1996).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xix + 716pp. Order No. NSBK-C2502
Keywords: 0571165540, Emily Tennyson, Tennyson, poet, poetry, poem, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth cnetury, poets, British, Britain, England, English
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Duby, Georges.
Women of the Twelfth Century: Volume Three: Eve and the Church
(Polity Press + University of Chicago, Rpt., 1998).
Translated by Eve Birrell. Paperback. Very good+. 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C12763
Keywords: 0745619495, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medieval, 12th century, twelfth century
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Reproduction Suffragette Badge / Brooch, .
The Portcullis: The WSPU Holloway Badge / Brooch
(Modern Replica, 2018).
The original Holloway brooch, of which this is a faithful replica, was designed by Sylvia Panhurst and presented from 1909 onwards to suffragettes who had undergone imprisonment. The portcullis and chains are in a non-precious antique-chrome plate, and the arrow on top, which is the convict symbol, is purple, white and green enamel (the colours of the WSPU). Dimensions: 2cm X 2.5cm. With a secure butterfly clasp to the rear. Presented with a free purple velvet gift-pouch in an attractive gift-bag, which is clear at the front and shiny silver at the rear. Fine condition, brand new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15557
Keywords: B07FSSWRJD, suffrage, woman's, women's suffrage, brooch, brooches, badge, badges, social history, WSPU, replica, reproduction, Votes for Women, suffragette ephemera, suffragette memorabilia, Women's Social and Political Union, Edwardian, imprisonment, prisons, Sylvia Pankhurst, portcullis, Holloway brooch, suffragettes
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Dyhouse, Carol.
Glamour: Women, History, Feminism
(Zed, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. ix + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-C15089
Keywords: 9781848134072, feminism, glamour, fashion, history, women, Carol Dyhouse, women's magazines
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Monk, Wendy, ed.
The Journals of Caroline Fox, 1835-71. A Selection from:
(Elek, 1972).
Hardback. Ex library, but good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C35
Keywords: 0236154478, Caroline Fox, women's history, women, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Leaming, Barbara.
Katharine Hepburn:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers slightly worn, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 548pp. Order No. NSBK-C10556
Keywords: 0297813196, Katharine Hepburn, film stars, America, USA, United States, women, women's history, media, films, cinema, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, Spencer Tracey
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Evans, Mary and Ungerson, Clare, eds.
Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes
(Tavistock Publications, 1983).
Paperback. Good. x + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9139
Keywords: 0422784400, women, women's history, woman, women's studies, labour, labor, sexual division of labour, female subordination, schools, the law, mental health services, housing, employment, work, women and work, women's work, women workers, unemployment
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Flinn, M. W and Smout, T. C. eds.
Essays in Social History:
(Clarendon Press, 1974).
Edited for the Economic History Society. Paperback. Minor annotation, slightly shaky with tatty covers, a good working copy. xi + 289pp. Order No. NSBK-A5657
Keywords: 0198770170, social history, economy, economics, Britain, British, England, English, labour, labor, Industrial Revolution, industry, Sunday Schools, Manchester, Poor Laws, class, classes, towns, urban history, social reform, mortality, trade unions, women's history, trade unionism
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