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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Dale Women's Institute, .
Dale: An Illustrated History
(Dale Women's Institute, Pennsylvania, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A9821
Keywords: 095386930X, Dale, Wales, Welsh, Dale Women's Institute, Britain, British, history, community, communities
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Hampshire Federation of Women's Institut, .
Hampshire: Within Living Memory
(Countryside Books, 1994).
Paperback. Cover creased, otherwise good+. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A11942
Keywords: 1853062901, Hampshire, Women's Institutes, Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes, rural, agricultural, British counties, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Women's Freedom League, .
Report of the Annual Conference, February 1908: and Balance Sheet, Oct. - Dec. 1907
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1908 text).
Number 2 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C5190
Keywords: 0954263251, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, Women's Freedom League, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, conference, conferences, Cicely Hamilton, Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, reports, documents, sources, protest, social protest, booklet
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National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, .
The Constitutions, Rules and Handbook:
(National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, 1960).
Hardback. Very good. 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C8747
Keywords: B0000CKMTY, sixties, 1960s, National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, women's history, constitutions, rules, handbook, organisations, societies, Britain, British, female, England, English, membership
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Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, .
The Cheshire Village Book:
(Countryside Books, 1990).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little coffee staining and creasing to rear pages, otherwise good. 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A14317
Keywords: 1853060755, Cheshire Federation Women's Institutes, Cheshire, villages, rural, countryside, farms, Cheshire Plain
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Simon, Rita J. and Danziger, Gloria.
Women's Movements in America: Their Successes, Disappointments and Aspirations
(Praeger / Greenwood Press, 1991).
Paperback. Spine faded, light soiling to back cover, otherwise very good. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C13281
Keywords: 0275939499, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's movements, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, voting, votes for women, politics, women's rights
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Sheldrick, Helen M.
Pioneer Women Teachers of Connecticut, 1767-1970: Two Hundred Years of Creative Service
(Alpha Kappa State, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in torn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 149pp. Order No. NSBK-C6069
Keywords: B000H59N5G, teacher, teachers, teaching, learning, learners, students, pupils, education, educational, America, American, United States, USA, Connecticut, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, woman, women, Helen M. Sheldrick
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Lagroye, Jacques and Wright, Vincent, eds.
Local Government in Britain and France: Problems and Prospects
(George Allen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good+. viii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A14998
Keywords: 0043520812, local government, history, Britain, France, problems, finance, urban development, towns, urbanisation, localities, local, regions, regionalism, local politics, British, French
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