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
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Probert, Laura.
Women of Thanet Rally Round the Flag, 1914 - 1918:
(Millicent Press, 2011).
Paperback. New and unread, with just a little soiling to the page edges from shelf-life. 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15165
Keywords: 9780955867415, Thanet, Great War, First World War, history, social history, France, Western Front, women, Kent, aerial bombardment, domestic front, home front, women's work
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
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Beale, Irene A.
Genesee Valley Women, 1743-1985:
(Chesnut Hill Press, 1985).
Paperback. Page edges soiled, bottom corner bumped, otherwise good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C7835
Keywords: 0960813225, Genesee Valley, women, women's history, woman, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, 20th, gender, women and work, women's work biographies, biographical, biography, American, USA, United States, pioneers, pioneer, Iroquois, anti-slavery, slavery, education, lawyers
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Dauber, Roslyn and Cain, Melinda L.
Women and Technological Changes in Developing Countries:
(AAAS Selected Symposium, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, a little splashing to front board, otherwise good. xxii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C8446
Keywords: 0891587918, work, women, woman, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Third World, developing countries, feminism, feminists, food, industry, industrial, Tangaye, Maya, Chan Kom, demographic, demography, mothers, development
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Buswell, Carol.
Women in Contemporary Society:
(Macmillan, 1989).
Issues in Sociology. Paperback. Fine. ix + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-A11243
Keywords: 0333461312, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, society, feminism, feminists, work, media, politics, family, edcuation
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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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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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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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Holdsworth, Angela.
Out of the Doll's House: The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century
(BBC, rpt, 1989).
Paperback. Covers slightly creased, otherwise good. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C3627
Keywords: 0563206314, women's history, women's movement, domesticity, family, motherhood, fashion, social history, women and work, home, twentieth century, 20th century, work, womens, Angela Holdsworth
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