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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McCrindle, Jean & Rowbotham, Sheila, Eds..
Dutiful Daughters: Women Talk About Their Lives
(Penguin, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Pages browned, front cover clipped at top corner, a good working copy. 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C6499
Keywords: 9780140219456, women, women's lives, biography, domestic, sexual, women and work, female, experience, Janet Daly, Annie Williams, Annie Davison, Catherina Barnes, Maggie Fuller, Jean Mormont, Peggy Wood, Norah Kirk, Fiona McFarlane, Barbara Marsh, Pat Garland, Christine Buchan, Irene McIntosh, Linda Peffer, domestic, family, oral history, interviews, oral history interviews
Price £4.00.
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
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Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, .
Silvered Wings: A Commemorative Brochure
(Kingston-upon-Hull CC, 1980).
The story of Amy Johnson. Produced for the Amy Johnson Festival, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 3rd - 24th May 1980. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C9692
Keywords: B000HC6XGQ, Amy Johnson, aircraft, aeroplanes, aviators, women, woman, history, Britain, British, England, English, wings, biographical, biographies, biography, lives, life, gender, women's work, Hull, twentieth century, 20th, planes, aviation
Price £5.00.
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Horn, Pamela.
Victorian Countrywomen:
(Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xiii + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-C15519
Keywords: 0631155228, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, countrywomen, work, rural life, country, countryside, women's history, women's work
Price £12.00.
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
What a Woman May Be, and Yet Not Have the Vote: What a Man May Be, and Yet Not Lose the Vote
(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 is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and depicts a row of women in respectable jobs and beneath this a row of male convicts, lunatics etc. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Portrayer insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Brand new fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14447
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, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, women and work, professions
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Pitcher, Harvey.
When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution
(Readers Union, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled/rubbed dustwrapper. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C8392
Keywords: governess, women's work, teaching, Russia, October Revolution, Miss Emmie, women travellers, Bolsheviks, revolution, Russian Revolution
Price £8.00.
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Delamont, Sara.
The Sociology of Women: An Introduction
(George Allen and Unwin, 1980).
Paperback. Some soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. x + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C7623
Keywords: 0043011209, women, woman, women's history, sociology, sex, gender, work, community, class, mothers, grandmothers, widows, parenthood, old age, motherhood
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Dauber, Roslyn and Cain, Melinda L.
Women and Technological Changes in Developing Countries:
(AAAS Selected Symposium, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, a little splashing to front board, otherwise good. xxii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C8446
Keywords: 0891587918, work, women, woman, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Third World, developing countries, feminism, feminists, food, industry, industrial, Tangaye, Maya, Chan Kom, demographic, demography, mothers, development
Price £23.00.
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Collet, Miss.
Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls:
(HMSO, 1894).
Rare original. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good+. vii + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C15323
Keywords: B0013IULPC, Miss Collet, women, girls, work, women's history, Britain, British, history, antiquarian, employment
Price £55.00.
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