Riley, Glenda.
Divorce: An American Tradition
(OUP, 1991).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C12330
Keywords: 0195079124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, marriage, divorces, matrimonial, men, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, legal, laws, marital breakdown
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Lowndes, G.A.N.
The Silent Social Revolution: an Account of the Expansion of Public Education in England & Wales, 1895-1935
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings, boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-A681
Keywords: B000J0SJOA, Britain, British, England, English, history, Wales, Welsh, education, public education, state education, revolution, twentieth century, 20th century, educationalist, educational, school, schools, schooling, classes
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Meriam, Adele Stuart.
The Stepfather in the Family:
(Chicago UP, 1940).
A Social Service Monograph of the University of Chicago. The approach is both sociological and legalistic. Meriam looks at judicial decisions and "sets out the logic and arguments on which those decisions have been based.She brings out clearly the strange dilemma created because of the position of the courts in accordance with the principle that by marriage the stepfather undertakes no obligations to the children of an earlier marriage, as over and against the logic of the older view that when he married a woman a husband took his wife with all of her liabilities." The problem of the stepfather; the stepfather as a stranger; the in loco parentis relationship; liability to support; right of stepfather to his stepchild's earnings; inheritance; right to punish; etc. Paperback. Ex library, covers yellowed, otherwise good+. x + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A2346
Keywords: B000HBYPWQ, stepfather, step-parent, fatherhood, parenting, law, legal, America, American, American history, USA, United States, family
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Larcom, Lucy.
A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory
(Corner House, (1889) rpt., 1985).
Social Science Reprints. Hardback. Fine. 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C9499
Keywords: 0879280786, Lucy Larcom, autobiography, autobiographical, lives, autobiographies, self history, self history, New England, American, USA, United States, US, Victorian
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Tims, Margaret.
Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860 - 1935: a Centenary Study
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A8955
Keywords: B0000CKYPE, Jane Addams, Hull House, women's history, Chicago, American women, USA, United States of America, social work, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, pacifism, pacifists, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winners, social reformers, philanthropy, philanthropists
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Ceplair, Larry,ed.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader
(Columbia UP, 1991).
Paperback. Very good+. xi + 345pp. Order No. NSBK-C13653
Keywords: 0231076169, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, literary criticism
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Spurlock, John C and Magistro, Cynthia A.
New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture
(New York UP, 1998).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9702
Keywords: 0814780458, America, American, USA, United States, new woman, sexual revolution, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, culture, emotional, marriage, companionship, career
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Stearns, Peter N., ed.
Expanding the Past: A Reader in Social History
(New York UP, 1988).
Essays from the Journal of Social History. Paperback. Tear to spine, some creasing to page edges, otherwise good. x + 394pp. Order No. NSBK-A13565
Keywords: 0814778771, social history, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Gidley, Mick.
Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Spiritual Movement
(Exeter UP, 1990).
With Kate Bowles and with an afterword by John Fowles. Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise very good. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A3950
Keywords: 0859893510, Shaker, Shakers, Shakerism, religion, America, United States, American, spiritual movement, celibacy, history, eighteenth cenury, nineteenth century, utopia, utopian, Mother Ann Lee
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Yellow Wallpaper:
(Virago, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. New book, fine. 63pp. Order No. NSBK-C3784
Keywords: 0860682013, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American, USA, United States, women's history, literature, short story, fiction, nineteenth century, psychology, madness, lunacy, mental illness, Virago, short stories, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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