Giles, Judy.
Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50:
(Macmillan, 1995).
Hardback. With a newspaper article pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 189pp. Order No. NSBK-C15586
Keywords: 9780312126247, women, private life, domesticity, gender, identity, Britain, British, England, British, Judy Giles, suburbia, respectability, twentieth century, social history, oral history
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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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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Walkerdine, Valerie and Lucey, Helen.
Democracy in the Kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters
(Virago, 1989).
Paperback. With a newspaper review and letter pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise good condition. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C15803
Keywords: 9781853810343, mothers, daughters, family, domesticity, class, gender, democracy
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
Price £29.00.
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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Filbee, Marjorie.
A Woman's Place: an Illustrated History of Women at Home, From the Roman Villa to the Victorian Town House
(Ebury Press, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C3580
Keywords: 0852231547, women, history, home, domesticity, gender, Britain, British, England, English, household
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Cott, Nancy F.; Boydston, J.; Braude, A., eds.
Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women
(Northeastern UP, 2nd edition, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. xxi + 440pp. Order No. NSBK-C2419
Keywords: 0930350952, American, United States, USA, American women, social history, domesticity, women and work
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Cott, Nancy F.
The Bonds of Womanhood: Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
(Yale UP, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled and chipped dustwrapper. xii + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-C15622
Keywords: B00FAUQYXM, New England, United States, USA, America, woman's sphere, womanhood, sexuality, domesticity
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