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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Hall, Catherine, McClelland, K & Rendall, Jane.
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867
(CUP, 2000).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A8593
Keywords: 9780521576536, class, race, gender, Victorian, British, British History, women's history, Reform Act, Britain, England, English, Jane Rendall, Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, politics, democracy, political
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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Thompson, Eleanor Wolf.
Education for Ladies 1830 - 1860: Ideas on Education in Magazines for Women
(King's Crown Press, 1947).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. v + 170pp. Order No. NSBK-C13360
Keywords: B000JEXOFA, magazines, magazine, ladies, education, 19th century, nineteenth century, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, media, history, women's history, medicine, medical, women doctors, schools, female education, training, etiquette
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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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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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Horn, Pamela.
Victorian Countrywomen:
(Basil Blackwell, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xiii + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-C15519
Keywords: 0631155228, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, countrywomen, work, rural life, country, countryside, women's history, women's work
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Raeburn, Antonia.
The Suffragette View:
(David & Charles, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-C2222
Keywords: 0715370340, women's politics,politics, suffrage, suffragette, suffragism, Edwardian, Votes for Women, women's rights, the Women's Movement, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history
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MacNalty, Sir Arthur S.
Mary Queen of Scots: The Daughter of Debate
(Johnson Publications, 1971).
Paperback. Covers soiled and edgeworn, otherwise good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C13830
Keywords: 0853070555, Mary Queen of Scots, Queens, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sixteenth century
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Beauchamp, Joan.
Women Who Work:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Good + in dustwrapper. 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C15509
Keywords: B00CPRYSZO,Britain, British, woman, women, female, feminism, feminists, women and work, women's history,twentieth century
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