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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Anderson, Michael.
Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914:
(Macmillan, 1980).
Studies in Economic and Social History. Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A7186
Keywords: 0333240650, family, motherhood, fatherhood, marriage, conjugal, families, illegitimate, illegitimacy, parenthood, domesticity, sex, children, child, conceptions, extramarital, spouses, population, demography, demographic, households, economy, economics, inheritance, Studies in Economic and Social History
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Rothman, Sheila M.
Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present
(Basic Books Inc).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiv + 322pp. Order No. NSBK-C12563
Keywords: 0465092039, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, domestic, domesticity, homes, housewife, housewifery, houses, roles
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Walkerdine, Valerie and Lucey, Helen.
Democracy in the Kitchen: Regulating Mothers and Socialising Daughters
(Virago, 1989).
Paperback. With a newspaper review and letter pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise good condition. vii + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C15803
Keywords: 9781853810343, mothers, daughters, family, domesticity, class, gender, democracy
Price £11.99.
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Stone, Dorothy.
The National: The Story of a Pioneer College: The National Training College of Domestic Subjects
(Brighton Polytechnic Press, 1973).
Hardback. Very good. xvi + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C8860
Keywords: 0904167003, The National Training College of Domestic Subjects, education, women's history, women, woman, gender, pioneers, Dorothy Stone, Surrey, Brighton, Home Economics, domestic, domesticity, cooking, cooks, cookery, nineteenth century, twentieth century, training, domestic sciences, 19th, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, Edwardian, schools, teaching, training colleges, catering
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Gubar, Susan.
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century
(Columbia UP, 2000).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 237pp. Order No. NSBK-C8579
Keywords: 0231115806, feminism, feminists, literature, gender, race, ethnicity, Jews, Jewish, African-American, women's studies, gays, lesbians, homosexuals, homosexuality, history of ideas, artists, writers, women, woman, women's history
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Chapkis, Wendy.
Beauty and Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
(The Women's Press, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9741
Keywords: 0704340895, women, women's history, politics, political appearance, faces, make up, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, dress, ugliness, ugly, beautiful, skin
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Ware, Vron.
Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History
(Verso, 1992).
Paperback. Spine creased, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good condition. xviii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C15660
Keywords: 9781784780128, racism, ethnicity, history, slavery, Empire
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
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