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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Iacovetta, Franca and Valverde, Mariana, eds.
Gender Conflicts:
(Toronto UP, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xxvii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C9855
Keywords: 9780802067739, gender, women, men, American, America, USA, United States, Women's Political League, Toronto, Jewish, Jews, Canada, Canadian, ethnicity, ethnic, racism, race, twentieth century, 20th
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Greene, Lorenzo J and Woodson, Carter G.
The Negro Wage Earner:
(Russell and Russell, rpt., 1969).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped. xiii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-A11868
Keywords: 0404001637, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, black history, Black, ethnicity, twentieth century, wages, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, pay
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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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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
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Marsh, E. L.
Laundry Work: In Theory and Practice
(Longmans, Green & Co, 1914).
With illustrations. Hardback. External condition poor, spine cover flapping loose, cloth worn/marked/blotched, a working copy. xiii + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A11180
Keywords: B000877ELI, laundry, laundry work, launderesses, women's work, women and work, domestic, domesticity, washing, ironing, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, cleaning, mangling, cotton, linen
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Ruskin, John.
The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization
(George Allen, rpt of 2nd edit., 1906).
Hardback. Ex library, boards slightly creased & corners slightly worn, otherwise good. xv + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A1882
Keywords: housewife, domesticity, domestic, Victorian
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Arnot, Madeleine, ed.
Race and Gender: Equal Opportunities Policies in Education. A Reader
(Pergamon, 1985).
Paperback. Good. 150pp. Order No. NSBK-C14109
Keywords: 0080326749, race, ethnicity, gender, racial, education, schools, equal opportunities, girls, boys, multiracial education, race relations, sex discrimination
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Rendall, Jane.
Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880:
(Blackwell, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C7322
Keywords: 9780631153030, Jane Rendall, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, women, woman, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, work, employment, labor, labour, domestic, domesticity, economics, economy, economic, women and work
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