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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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Abramovitz, Mimi.
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
(South End Press, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. x + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C13061
Keywords: 9780896083295, social welfare policy,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Huxley, Elspeth.
Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary
(Century, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased and page edges soiled, otherwise good. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A7976
Keywords: 0712623779, diary, diaries, Elspeth Huxley, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Wiltshire
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Anon, .
The First Casualty: The German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience
(High Level Associates Ltd, 1991).
Paperback. Good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A5892
Keywords: B0000EF19I, German, Germany, Jersey, occupation, wars, warfare, World War II, World War Two, Second World War, twentieth century, military, Nazis, Nazism, Channel Islands, history, European, Europe, history, hospitals, medicine, medical, Underground Hospital, jews, jewish, Spanish, refufees, Russians, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, antisemites, islands, resistance, Britain, British
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Pearson, R.A.
The Guardian Book of the Welfare State:
(Wildwood House, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-A7656
Keywords: 0704530848, 20th, twentieth century, welfare state, social history, social welfare, poor, poverty, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, debates, housing, education, health, social security, health, post-war, post war
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White, Kevin.
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male HeteroSexuality in Modern America
(New York UP, 1993).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A13136
Keywords: 0814792588, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sexuality, homosexuality, gay history, New Man, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, masculinity, men, male
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West, Rebecca.
1900:
(Viking Press, 1982).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C3454
Keywords: 0670513806, Rebecca West, 1900, British, Britain, history, turn of the century, twentieth century, Victorian, England, English, women writers
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Brittan, Arthur and Maynard, Mary.
Sexism, Racism and Oppression:
(Basil Blackwell, 1984).
Paperback. Front cover right corner slightly bent, newspaper article stuck to fly leaf, otherwise very good. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C10125
Keywords: 0855206756, sexism, racism, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English
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Chiplin, Brian and Sloane, Peter.
Sex Discrimination in the Labour Market:
(Macmillan, 1976).
Hardback. Good in browned dustwrapper. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A10544
Keywords: 0333191250, sex, sexual discrimination, labour, labor, economics, economic, jobs, wages, salaries, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, twentieth century, 20th, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, workplaces, USA, United States, US, feminism, feminists, occupations, occupational segregation, equal opportunities, equal rights, discrimination, capitalism
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