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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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Home: Its Work and Influence
(AltaMira, 2002).
Introduction by Michael S. Kimmel. A Reprint ofr the 1903 edition. Paperback. Fine. xx + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C13628
Keywords: 0759103062, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, homes, households, family, families, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Arnold, Eleanor, ed.
Voices of American Homemakers:
(Indiana UP, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C11859
Keywords: 0253207991, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, oral history, States, homemakers, family, families, family values, rural, oral histories, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural
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Murrell, Christine M.
Womanhood and Health:
(Mills and Boon, 1923).
With 15 diagrams by Percy L. T. Bennett and 4 Charts. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 154 + 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C12663
Keywords: B000UZXSG8, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, health, science, Mills and Boon, reproduction, childbearing, motherhood
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Robinson, Lillian S.
Sex, Class and Culture:
(Methuen, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good+. xxxiii + 349pp. Order No. NSBK-C12560
Keywords: 0416012418, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sex, class, classes, culture, twentieth century, 20th
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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Cruz, Vera da.
Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary:
(Bailliere Tindall, 4th edition, rpt, 1964).
Hardback. Covers soiled & a little worn, otherwise a good working copy. xiii + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7273
Keywords: 0702005967, midwives, midwives' dictionary, Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary, health, midwifery, history, 1950s, 1960s, post war, childbirth, nurses, nursing, advice books, nurse, Britain, British, England, English, social history, women's history, having babies, reproduction, motherhood, childbirth, mothers, maternity, pregnancy, pregnant
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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Leach, William.
True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
(Wesleyan UP, 2nd edit., 1989).
Paperback. Very good+. xxiv + 449pp. Order No. NSBK-C13255
Keywords: 9780819562272, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminist
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