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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Suffragette Poster, Modern Reproduction.
Votes for Women Wanted Everywhere:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Paper: SRA3 = 320mm by 450mm. Image: A3 = 297mm by 420mm. 300 GMS gloss art high quality poster paper, coated and treated. Reproduction of an attractive suffragette poster advertising "Votes for Women", the Pethick-Lawrence edited newspaper, founded in October 1907. The colours are green, grey, purple and white and the image depicts a suffragette in contemporary dress standing in a field and holding aloft a copy of the newspaper. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C13071
Keywords: B000UZVP7M, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, illustrations, suffrage, politics, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, newspapers, new design
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Walker, Carole.
A Saviour of Living Cargoes: the Life and Work of Caroline Chisholm
(Wolds Publishing, first UK edition, 2010).
Caroline Chisholm's philanthropic work was of lasting benefit to British emigrants and colonies - to Australia in particular. In New South Wales, she found shelter and employment for female immigrants and pressed officials to adopt her schemes for settling families on the land. In London, she arranged free passages for emancipists' wives and children and encouraged families to emigrate to Australia. In Victorian goldfields, she provided accommodation for the needy traveller. Tireless and resourceful, she cared little for personal reward or position; and by her own endeavours and careful persuasion, she demonstrated her faith in people, the strength of womanhood, and the need to protect the vulnerable and help working people and their families. This biography casts new light on her life and achievements. Paperback. Brand new, mint condition. xvi + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-C14738
Keywords: 9780956472403, Caroline Chisholm, Australia, pioneers, Australian, women travellers, biography, biographies, women, history, nineteenth century, 19th century, immigration, migration, emigration, colonialism, imperialism, Carole Walker, India, Indian, emigrants, philanthropy, New South Wales, colonies, women's history, Victorian
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Barker-Benfield, G.J and Clinton, Catherine.
Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Civil War
(St Martin's Press, 1991).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C11928
Keywords: 0312024282, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, settlement, Civil War, antebellum, colonial, slavery, slaves, Pochahontas, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, nineteenth century, 17th, 16th, 19th
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Stopes, Marie.
Wise Parenthood: the Treatise on Birth Control for Married People
(G.P. Putnam, 7th edit., 1921).
Hardback. Cloth slightly marked and edges worn, a good working copy. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-C77
Keywords: B0014FFD70, Marie Stopes, parenthood, parent, birth control, marriage, contraception, reproduction, sexuality, women's history, family, motherhood
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Gubar, Susan.
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century
(Columbia UP, 2000).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C8579
Keywords: 0231115806, feminism, feminists, literature, gender, race, ethnicity, Jews, Jewish, African-American, women's studies, gays, lesbians, homosexuals, homosexuality, history of ideas, artists, writers, women, woman, women's history
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Woodhouse, A. E., ed.
Tales of Pioneer Women:
(Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1940).
Collected by the Women's Institutes of New Zealand. With forewords by A. E. Jerome Spencer OBE and by Amy G. Kane. Hardback. Top of spine split, boards rubbed, otherwise good. xxviii + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-C15479
Keywords: B000LAQVWA, pioneer, women, woman, women's history, New Zealand, travellers, travelers, travel, Victorian, Women's Institutes, colony, colonisation, Commonwealth, Australasia
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Tannahill, Reay.
Sex in History:
(Hamish Hamilton, rpt., 1984).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-H11119
Keywords: 0241102006, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sex, sexuality, contraceptives, eunuchs, virgins
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Ravenhill, Alice.
Some Characteristics and Requirements of Childhood:
(E. J. Arnold & Son, 2nd edition, 1910).
Hardback. Some cracking internally to hinges and some pencil scorings, cloth slightly browned, otherwise good. x + 71pp. Order No. NSBK-A14412
Keywords: B001OM0IZA, childhood, education, Alice Ravenhill, history, children, childhood development, infants, food, nurture, nature, play, development, adolescence, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, women writers
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Stephens, W. B.
Teaching Local History:
(MUP, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper. x + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A8751
Keywords: 0719006600, teaching, teachers, education, educational, local history, fieldwork, W. B. Stephens
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