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
Price £24.00.
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Weaver, Mary Jo.
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C5027
Keywords: 0253209935, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, women, woman, history, reloigion, religious, Roman Catholic, Americ, American, United States, USA
Price £7.00.
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Benson, Allan L.
The New Henry Ford:
(Funk and Wagnalls, 1923).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, cloth rather worn and faded with light soiling. Contents good and firm. 360pp. Order No. NSBK-A14289
Keywords: B000WG9UYY, Henry Ford, biography, biographies, Ford, Ford Motor Company, cars, automobiles, car, history, manufacturing, racing, Detroit, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
Price £17.00.
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Chamberlain, M. E.
The New Imperialism:
(The Historical Association, 1970).
Historical Association [G.73]. Booklet. Covers browned, otherwise good. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A9802
Keywords: 0852780192, imperial, Empire, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, history, Historical Association, Europe, European, booklet
Price £2.00.
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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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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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Knox, Patty.
New Directions in Fair Isle Knitting:
(Lark Books, 2000).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-A13376
Keywords: 093727416X, knitting, kitters, Fair Isle knitting, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Spallone, Patricia.
Beyond Conception: New Politics of Reproduction
(Macmillan, 1989).
Women in Society. Hardback. Newspaper articles pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. ix + 251pp. Order No. NSBK-C14158
Keywords: 0333435311, reproduction, conception, feminism, conceiving, women, IVF, test tube fertilisation, surrogacy, motherhood, artifical conception, assisted conception, medical science, eugenics, genetic engineering
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A New World for Women: Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist
(Pluto, 2nd impress., 1978).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers yellowed and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C1584
Keywords: 0904383547, socialism, feminism, Stella Browne, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Liddle, Roger.
The New Case for Europe: The Crisis in British Pro-Europeanism - and How to Overcome it
(Fabian Society, 2005).
Fabian Ideas 615. Paperback. Very good. vi + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A11179
Keywords: 0716306158, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th
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