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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Lovell, Terry, ed.
British Feminist Thought: A Reader
(Basil Blackwell, 1990).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. ix + 385pp. Order No. NSBK-C12333
Keywords: 0631169148, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th
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Lancaster, Voilet B.
A Short History of the Mother's Union:
(Mother's Union, 1958).
Hardback. Spine faded, minor rubbing to corners, otherwise good+ in bright blue cloth. 191pp. Order No. NSBK-A15827
Keywords: B000SA8Z40, women's history, mothers, motherhood, parenthood, Mother's Union
Price £11.00.
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Wardlaw, C. W.
A Quiet Talent: Jessie Wardlaw, 1903 - 1971. A Brief Biographical Note on her Artistic Accomplishments
(Manchester, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in soiled, faded and slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C6565
Keywords: 0950215600, Jessie Wardlaw, women, twentieth century, women artists, art, artistic, paintings, English, British, Britain, Britain, Trinidad, Belgian Congo, Bramhall, Cheshire, Manchester, Bapende, Kundu, Topoke, the Congo, 20th century, portraits, black history, biography, biographies, life histories, life history
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
Price £19.50.
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Adams, Carol; Bartley, P; Lown, J.; Loxton C.
Under Control: Life in a Nineteenth-Century Silk Factory
(CUP, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C15108
Keywords: B004IGIH2K, silk industry, silk workers, history, factory, factories, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, women workers
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Meulenbelt, Outshoorn, Sevenhuijsen, & Vries.
A Creative Tension: Explorations in Socialist Feminism
(Pluto Press, 1984).
The Public and the Private; Motherhood; Feminism and Psychoanalysis; Policing the Family; Women and National Liberation. Paperback. Good. 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A12204
Keywords: 0861047567, A Creative Tension, feminism, feminists, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, twenteithc entury, 20th
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Jackson, Alan A.
The Middle Classes, 1900-1950:
(David St John Thomas, 1991).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 363pp. Order No. NSBK-A9293
Keywords: 0946537674, class, middle classes, middle class, middle-class, twentieth century, 20th, housing, detached, semi-detached, men, women, masculinity, femininity
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Lie, Suzanne Stiver; Malik, Lynda & Harris, D.
World Year Book of Education 1994: The Gender Gap in Higher Education
(Kogan Page, 1994).
World Yearbook of Education Series. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 250pp. Order No. NSBK-A14835
Keywords: 0749410795, gender, higher education, education, yearbooks, 1994, women, academic
Price £20.00.
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Haddon, Celia.
Great Days and Jolly Days: The Story of Girls' School Songs
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1977).
Hardback. Dustwrapper ripped / torn in a few places, otherwise very good. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-C14115
Keywords: B001O3B4ES, gender, education, history, girls' schools, women, songs, singing, music, learning, Empire, convents, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, women's education
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