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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Smith, Alice E.
Millstone and Saw: The Origins of Neenah-Menasha
(Wisconsin Historical Society, 1967).
Hardback. Good in rather soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. vii + 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14936
Keywords: 0870200968, urban, history, America, United States of America, city, cities, water mills, industry, industrial growthFox River, Neenah-Menasha, manufacturing, ninetenth century, American West
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Todd, Janet, ed.
A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800:
(Rowman & Littlefield, 1987).
Paperback. Very good. 344pp. Order No. NSBK-C4003
Keywords: 0416066429, British, Britain, history, American, America, United States, USA, dictionary, women writers, woman writer, literature, fiction, novel, seventeenth century, eighteenth century
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology: The Experiences of Women at War
(Mandarin, 1991).
Paperback. Good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C12624
Keywords: 0749307412, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, mass observation, anthology, anthologies
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Leinarte, Dalia, ed.
Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945 - 1970
(Rodopi, 2010).
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, & Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Paperback. Very good. 234pp. Order No. NSBK-A15105
Keywords: 9789042030626, Lithuanian Women, Lithuania, Baltics, history, women, Soviet, Russian, Russia
Price £35.00.
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Torturing Women in Prison: Vote Against the Government
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image, printed in vibrant colours, is taken from suffragette poster, originally produced by The National Women's Social and Political Union. It shows a prison cell in which a woman is being forcibly held down in a chair by a man and a woman, whilst another man pours liquid down a tube into the woman's nose. Written on the prison wall are the words votes for women. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14485
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, prisons, jails, gaols
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Huws, Ursula.
New Technology and Women's Employment: Case Studies from West Yorkshire
(Leeds Trade Union & Comm Res & Info C., 1982).
Paperback. Some splashes to covers and annotation to margins and rear endpaper, otherwise good. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C9684
Keywords: 0905829638, new technology, women's employment, women, woman, female, females, case studies, West Yorkshire, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Robinson, Jane.
Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
(Doubleday, 2018).
Hardback. Ex library, dustwrapper slightly browned, otherwise good+. xx + 374pp. Order No. NSBK-C15657
Keywords: 9780857523914, Votes for Women, women's suffrage, suffragettes, 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
Price £40.00.
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Lummis, Trevor and Marsh, Jan.
The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House
(Viking, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C13893
Keywords: 0670816809, Hardwick Hall, women's history, women, Trevor Lummis, Jan Marsh, Arlington Court, Wallington, Belton House, Saltram, English country houses, Bess of Hardwick, domestic servants, domestic service
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