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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Whyte, Edna Gardner.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography
(Orion, 1991).
With Ann L. Cooper. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C5582
Keywords: 0517576856, Edna Gardner Whyte, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, flight, aviators, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, pilots, pilot, military, Ninety Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, women's work, women and work, America, American, USA, United States, flying, flight, flying machines
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Evans, Mary and Ungerson, Clare, eds.
Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes
(Tavistock Publications, 1983).
Paperback. Good. x + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9139
Keywords: 0422784400, women, women's history, woman, women's studies, labour, labor, sexual division of labour, female subordination, schools, the law, mental health services, housing, employment, work, women and work, women's work, women workers, unemployment
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Drummond, James.
Upstairs to Downstairs: Advice to Servant Girls and Weary Mothers. Extracts from the Magazine of the Onward and Upward Association
(Aberdeen UP, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A13110
Keywords: 0080412041, advice, servant girls, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, mothers, motherhood, maternal
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Nightingale, Florence.
Letters and Reflections:
(Arthur James, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C2437
Keywords: 0853053537, Florence Nightingale, letters, Crimea, Crimean War, nursing, medicine, women travellers, nurse, women's work, women and work, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Wilson, S.J.
Women, the Family and the Economy:
(McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 2nd edit., 1981).
Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C10517
Keywords: 0075488353, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, family, families
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Wilson, Barbara Ker, ed.
Everyone Mattered: The Life and Times of Dame Kitty Anderson
(The Chandos Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C6864
Keywords: 0954531108, Dame Kitty Anderson, education, educational, schools, schooling, NCLS, Royal Holloway College, headmistress, headmistresses, teaching, teachers, women and work, women's work, childhood, children, twentieth century, Dames, Founder's Day, Margaret Ghilchik, Joan Clanchy, Olive Mellor, Erica Brostoff, schooldays, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, Kay Moore, Caroline M Barron, Katharine McMahon, Ann Thomas, Janet Sondheimer, women's education
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Summers, Anne.
Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914
(RKP, 1988).
Paperback. Spine sun-faded, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+. xii + 371pp. Order No. NSBK-C5258
Keywords: 9780710213389, nurses, nursing, nurse, Britian, British, military, war, warfare, First World War, World War One, World War I, Great War, Florence Nightingale, nightinglaes, Crimea, Crimean War, Jane Shaw Stewart, women and work, women's work, nursing sisters, hospitals, health, hospital, battlefield, nursing lobbies, war office, philanthropy, charity, , Anglo-Boer War, VAD, nursing officers, Anne Summers
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