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
Price £24.00.
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Beaney, Jan.
Embroidery: New Approaches
(Pelham Books, 1978).
Photographs by Dudley Moss. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape on fly leaf and inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13102
Keywords: 0720710723, embroidery, sewing, stitches, stitching, needlework, women, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Graham Bishop of Willesden's Commission, Objects and Policy of the Mothers' Union.
New Dimensions: Report of the Bishop of Willesden's Commission on the Objects and Policies of the Mothers' Union
(SPCK Publishing, 1972).
Paperback. Light discolouration of covers, otherwise very good. xii + 305pp. Order No. NSBK-C15917
Keywords: 9780281026821,Bishop of Willesden's Commission on the Objects and Policies of the Mothers' Union, motherhood, stored in hall with Gs
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O'Barr, Jean F, ed.
Women and a New Academy: Gender and Cultural Contexts
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
Hardback. Very good. 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C15998
Keywords: 9780299119300, women, education, feminism
Price £17.95.
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Hughes, Mary and Kennedy, Mary.
New Futures: Changing Women's Education
(RKP, 1985).
Paperback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, covers slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C15824
Keywords: 9780710099884, sociology, education, women
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Coustillas, Pierre, ed.
London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist
(Harvester Press, 1978).
Hardback. Bright blue cloth slightly rubbed, light foxing to page edges, else very good copy in slightly faded dustwrapper. vii + 617pp. Order No. NSBK-A15815
Keywords: 9780838721452, George Gissing, novels, literature, criticism, literary, diary, diaries, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, journals, history, writers, novelists
Price £70.00.
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Shriver, William P.
Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy
(The Presbyterian Department, 1913).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good+. ix + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13824
Keywords: B000RY9D3E, immigration, immigrants, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , democracy, Ellis Island, aliens
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Broughton, Trev Lynn & Anderson, Linda.
Women's Lives / Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/biography
(New York UP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-C3077
Keywords: 9780791433980, women writers, autobiography, biography, auto/biography, theory
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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Chapman, Pauline.
Madame Tussaud in England:
(Quiller Press, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. 117pp. Order No. NSBK-C2422
Keywords: 1870948793, Madame Tussaud, history, Madame Tussauds, Madame Tussaud's, wax works, wax, wax exhibitions, French, women, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, art, women artists
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