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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Tims, Margaret.
Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860 - 1935: a Centenary Study
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A8955
Keywords: B0000CKYPE, Jane Addams, Hull House, women's history, Chicago, American women, USA, United States of America, social work, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, pacifism, pacifists, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winners, social reformers, philanthropy, philanthropists
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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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Saxton, Martha.
Louisa May: a Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott
(Andre Deutsch, 1978).
Hardback. Very good, clean. viii + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-C2292
Keywords: 0233969659, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, American, America, American women, American women writers, woman writer, women writers, United States, USA, women's history
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Barker-Benfield, G.J. and Clinton, Catherine.
Portraits of American Women: From the Civil War to the Present
(St Martin's Press, 1991).
Paperback. Very good+. 301 - 619pp. Order No. NSBK-C11929
Keywords: 0312024312, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, The Reform Era,
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Smart, Carol, ed.
Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Book reviews pasted to back endpapers, otherwise good+. 233pp. Order No. NSBK-C6011
Keywords: 0415074053, women, woman, women's history, law, social policy, marriage, motherhood and sexuality, gender, nineteenth, twentieth, century, Victorian, European, Europe, America, American, United States, history, mothers, parenthood, maternal, unmarried mothers, illegitimacy, illegitimate, feminism, feminists, property, children, childhood, social work, wifebeating, domestic violence, wives, wife, marital, law, legal, citizenship
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Robinson, Lillian S.
Sex, Class and Culture:
(Methuen, rpt., 1986).
Paperback. Sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good+. xxxiii + 349pp. Order No. NSBK-C12560
Keywords: 0416012418, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sex, class, classes, culture, twentieth century, 20th
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Darling, Isabella F.
Songs from Silence:
(Alexander Gardner, 2nd edition, 1913).
Hardback. Light scuffing and fading to blue boards, some light foxing to pages not affecting legibility, otherwise a good+ copy. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A10180
Keywords: B0019RL7QO, Isabella Darling, women writers, woman writer, songs, writing, poetry, poems, poets, history, women's history, British, Britain, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, literature, literary, Lanarkshire, stane, singing, singers, music, verses, sickness
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Jensen, Joan M.
One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West
(New Mexico UP, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C12477
Keywords: 0826315399, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, art, artists, painters, paintings, American West, Joseppa Dick, Pomo, Georgia O'Keefe, Isadora Duncan, Ntozake Shange, Pacific Southwest, Buffalo Bird Woman, Christine Quintasket, Ruth Benedict, Sui Sin Far, Agnes Smedley, twentieth century, 20th
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