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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Wallace, Tina and March, Candida.
Changing Perceptions: Writings on Gender and Development
(Oxfam, 1991).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little thumbing to page edges, otherwise good. xi + 324pp. Order No. NSBK-A7048
Keywords: 0855981377, gender, development, developing, countries, country, Third World, women, woman, female, economics, economy, twentieth century, 20th, Turkana, Eritrea, Oxfam, Oxfam Sheanut Loan Scheme, Ghana, Kenya, Africa, African, Dominican Republic, Francisca, India, Indian
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Fuller, Margaret.
These Sad but Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
(Yale UP, 1991).
Edited by Larry J Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith. Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C8084
Keywords: 0300050380, Europe, Victorian, nineteenth century, dispatches, Margaret Fuller, woman writer, women writers, travel, Quirinal Palace, Mazzini, Giovanni Ossoli, Tiber Island, nursing, nurses
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Bell, E. Moberly.
Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire
(Constable, 1962).
Hardback. Some marking / soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good in soiled, worn and incomplete dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C187
Keywords: B0000CLMAE, social reform, prostitution, women's history, Josephine Butler, social purity, Contagious Diseases Act, Victorian, nineteenth century, Ladies' National Association, Liverpool, Winchester, Henry Wilson, J.B. Stansfeld, W.T. Stead
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Feminist Review, ed, .
Waged Work: A Reader
(Virago, 1986).
Paperback. Back cover foxed, otherwise good. vi + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-A9136
Keywords: 0860688011, try to find under r for review, work, wages, waged work, labour, labor, employment, sex, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, trade unions, trade unionism, women's history, black women, homeworking, European Community, feminism, feminists, earning, gender, women's work, women and work
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Barnett, Anthony.
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament Waged Its Falklands War
(Allison and Busby, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A12028
Keywords: 0850314933, Falklands, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, wars, warfare
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Webb, Mary.
Precious Bane:
(Virago, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C5952
Keywords: 0860680630, Mary Webb, Precious Bane, Virago, Viragos, literature, literary, novels, novelists, fiction, Shropshire, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer
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Reintjes, Liz.
Influence and Originality: Landscapes, c.1920-c.1950. Winifred Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins
(Djanogly Art Gallery, 1996).
For the Exhibition "Influence and Originality", Djanogly Art Gallery, 9th Jan to 10th March, 1996. Paperback. Light powdering/scratching to covers. Small piece of cover chipped away at lower front corner, otherwise a very good copy. 74pp. Order No. NSBK-C4924
Keywords: 0853316872, Winifred Nicholson, 1996, art, paintings, exhibition catalogues, catalogue, women artists, arts, Cornwall, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, catalog, catalogs, exhibition, exhibitions, exhibit, exhibits, st ives, watercolours, modern, contemporary, impressionism, impressionist, impressionists, impressionistic, painting, paintings, painter, painters, paint, art, artist, artists, drawing, drawings, sketches, sketch, sketching, illustrations, illustration, woman, women, female, ben, william, flower tales, unknown colour, rare, scarce, gallery, galleries, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Djanogly Art Gallery, art catalogs, art catalogue, Liz Reintjes, Reintjes
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