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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Smart, Carol, ed.
Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Book reviews pasted to back endpapers, otherwise good+. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C6011
Keywords: 0415074053, women, woman, women's history, law, social policy, marriage, motherhood and sexuality, gender, nineteenth, twentieth, century, Victorian, European, Europe, America, American, United States, history, mothers, parenthood, maternal, unmarried mothers, illegitimacy, illegitimate, feminism, feminists, property, children, childhood, social work, wifebeating, domestic violence, wives, wife, marital, law, legal, citizenship
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McGann, Susan; Crowther, Anne and Dougall, Rona.
A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90: A Voice for Nurses
(Manchester University Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good. x + 358pp. Order No. NSBK-C14628
Keywords: 9780719077951, nursing, nurses, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, hospitals, Royal College of Nursing, managers, NHS, National Health Service, training, unions, unionism, trade unionism, women and work
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Stern, Madeleine B.
We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America
(Nebraska UP, rpt, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 403pp. Order No. NSBK-C2528
Keywords: 0803292236, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, career, sexual equality, women and work, women's work, job
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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Huggett, Frank E.
Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times
(Book Club, 1977).
Many illustrations. Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C1822
Keywords: 0719533813, domestic service, servant, service, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, history, England, English, Victorian
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Goldstein, Donald M. & Dillon, Katherine V.
Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer
(Brassey's, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. 321pp. Order No. NSBK-C4692
Keywords: 157488199X, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, flight, aeronautical, history, flying, flights, air travel, women's history, woman, heroine, women and work, adventuress, Amelia Earhart, biography, biographies, pioneers, pioneer, American, America, United States, USA
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Howard, Ann.
Where Do We Go From Here?: Compelling Post-war Experiences of Australian Ex-Servicewomen, 1945-1948
(Tarka Publishing, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. x + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C8312
Keywords: 0646021389, Australian, Australia, servicewomen, women, women and work, women's work, Second World War, wars, World War 2, Two, II, Australasian, oral, history, twentieth, century, 20th, females, WAAF
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Collet, Miss.
Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls:
(HMSO, 1894).
Rare original. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good+. vii + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C15323
Keywords: B0013IULPC, Miss Collet, women, girls, work, women's history, Britain, British, history, antiquarian, employment
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