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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Guy, Donna J.
White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health and Progress in Latin America
(Nebraska UP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C9661
Keywords: 080327095X, women, woman, women's studies, twentieth century, feminism, feminists, sexual difference, femininity, gender, history of ideas, health, public health, Latin America, South American, white slavery
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
Home Nursing: the Authorized Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 4th edition, 5th reprint, Oct. 1938).
Hardback. Covers a little soiled / darkened with some wear to white titles & motif, otherwise good, though with a few creased pages. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A6772
Keywords: B000E7YF9G, St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Raffo, P.
The League of Nations:
(The Historical Association, 1974).
Pamphlet. Covers browned, with some creasing to front, otherwise good. 29pp. Order No. NSBK-A11414
Keywords: 0852781806, The League of Nations, society, societies, organisations, voluntary associations, peace, twentieth century, international, pamphlet
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Moss, Peter & Fonda, Nickie, eds.
Work and the Family:
(Temple Smith, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C1436
Keywords: 0851171990, work, family, twentieth century, sociology
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Davie, Donald.
Selected Poems:
(Carcanet, 1985).
Paperback. Very good. 124pp. Order No. NSBK-A9514
Keywords: 085635595X, poems, poetry, poets, Britain, British, history, twentieth century, 20th, Donald Davie
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Hayman, Ronald, ed.
My Cambridge:
(Robson Books, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A9626
Keywords: 0903895846, biography, biographies, life histories, lives, life history, Cambridge, Oxbridge, university, universities, education, academia, academe, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Footlights
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Allen, G.C.
The Structure of Industry in Britain: A Study in Economic Change
(Longman, 3rd edit., 1972).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, otherwise good. viii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10075
Keywords: industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, history, England, English, labour, labor, labour organisation, economics, economic, twentieth century, twentieth, Allen
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Nicholson, Joyce.
What Society Does to Girls:
(Virago, 1977).
Paperback. Scratch to front cover, otherwise good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-C12975
Keywords: 0860680215, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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