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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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women
(Portrayer, 2002 rpt of 1868 article).
First appeared in Fraser's Magazine, Dec 1868. No 2 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 22pp. Order No. NSBK-C6302
Keywords: social history, Frances Power Cobbe, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, philanthropy, philanthropists, women's rights, women's movement, suffrage, woman suffage, women's suffrage, London National Society for Women's Suffrage, feminists, feminist, feminism, family history, families, Married Women's Property Act, law, legal, marital relations, marital law, property holders, property owners, married women, husbands, wives, married couples, domesticity, wife, laws, Fraser's Magazine, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Cott, Nancy F., ed.
A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through her Letters
(Yale UP, 1991).
Paperback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xii + 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C8399
Keywords: 0300052529, woman, women, women's history, Nancy F Cott, Mary Ritter Beard, letters, epistolary, epistolary, American, USA, United States, social reform, suffrage, Charles A Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, feminism, feminists, women's rights, women's movement
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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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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
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Fudge, Dorothy.
Sands of Time: the Autobiography of a Dorset Woman
(Word & Action, new edition, 1981).
Memories of life in Sherborne, Dorset. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-C15864
Keywords: 9780904939279, booklets, women's history, Dorset, autobiography, autobiographies, Sherborne, maids, domestic work, service, in service, childcare, social history, Castleton
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McCloskey, Donald, N., ed.
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
(Methuen, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in sl faded dw. xv + 439pp. Order No. NSBK-A4659
Keywords: 0416082408, Mathematical Social Science Board, economy, economists, economics, demography, capital, capitalism, Britain, British, history, steam, 416082408, Victorian, nineteenth century, industry, industrial, Atlantic economy, American iron production
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Suffragette Poster, .
The Cat and Mouse Act: Passed by the Liberal Government
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007).
Reproduction British suffragette poster. "The Liberal Cat. Electors Vote Against Him. Keep the Liberal Out!" Image shows a fierce cat holding a WSPU suffragette in his mouth. Printed on premium paper (300 GSM gloss art). Size of the paper is 450mm x 320mm and image is approx 435mm x 305mm. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C12966
Keywords: B001F15OMW, suffragettes, suffragette, Cat and Mouse Act, Liberal Government, liberals, liberal, parliament, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, politics, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette imagery, images, posters, poster, WSPU, women's social and political union, campaign, hunger strikes, hunger strike, prints, print, suffragette posters, new design
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Dyer, Colin.
Population and Society in Twentieth Century France:
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1978).
Paperback. A little scuffing to covers, otherwise good+. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A8683
Keywords: 0340219106, France, French, history, population, demography, demographic, social history, statistics, statistical, mortality, fertility, population rates, birth rates, birth-rates, migration
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Roche, Daniel.
The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
(Berg, rpt, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13324
Keywords: 090758246X, Paris, Parisian, France, French, history, Ancien Regime, 18th century, eighteenth century, popular culture, crowd studies, population, housing, consumption, consumers, popular dress, fashion, reading habits, social history, customs
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