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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Coppock, Vicki, Haydon, D., and Richter, Ingrid.
The Illusions of Post-Feminism: New Women, Old Myths
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. viii + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C14019
Keywords: 9780748402373, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, feminists, feminism, post-feminism
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Grigg, John.
Nancy Astor: A Revealing New Portrait of a Woman who Made History
(Hamlyn, 1980).
Illustrated with exclusive pictures from the Astor family album. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, otherwise very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A3947
Keywords: 0600205940, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century, Tories
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Royden, Maude.
Women's Partnership in the New World:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1941).
Hardback. Spine sunfaded, otherwise good in soiled and torn dustwrapper. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-C15481
Keywords: B0010WBLA0, women, woman, female, females, sex, civilization, twentieth century, histor, historical Britain, British
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Radford, Matthew.
Matthew Radford: April/May 1993. Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, and The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
(Becker Graphics Inc, 1993).
Co-curators William M. Chambers and Thomas Zollner. Catalogue. Very good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11188
Keywords: art, artists, painters, paintings, history, 20th, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
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Kollontai, Alexandra.
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle: Love and the New Morality
(Falling Wall Press, 1972).
Translated and introduced by Alix Holt. Booklet. Very good. iv + 26pp. Order No. NSBK-A15785
Keywords: booklets, stored with pamphlets, women, Russia, Russian, history, Alexandra Kollontai
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Philips, Deborah & Haywood, Ian.
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions
(Leicester UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. iv + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C4311
Keywords: 0718500598, post war, postwar, post-war, fiction, fictions, literature, women, woman, literary history, 1950s, working women, women and work, texts, discourses, gender, femininity, women employees, Britain, British, England, English
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Beaney, Jan.
Embroidery: New Approaches
(Pelham Books, 1978).
Photographs by Dudley Moss. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape on fly leaf and inside front cover, otherwise good in dustwapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13102
Keywords: 0720710723, embroidery, sewing, stitches, stitching, needlework, women, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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