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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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology
(Heinemann, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C1657
Keywords: 0434695319, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history
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Collet, Miss.
Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls:
(HMSO, 1894).
Although there is some tear damage to the right-hand side of the front cover, the book has been nicely repaired. There's a new spine, the covers have been neatly rebacked and there are new endpapers. The only other faults are a small tear (2cm) to right-edge of title page and some Roman numerals in ink are written at the base of the front cover. Otherwise, this is a good+, tight copy. Paperback. Some tear damage to front cover, but nicely repaired. New spine, covers rebacked, new endpapers, though small tear to right edge of title page. Good+, a tight copy. vii + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C15323
Keywords: B0013IULPC, Miss Collet, women, girls, work, women's history, Britain, British, history, antiquarian, employment
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Griffiths, Sian, ed.
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World
(MUP, 1996).
With an introduction by Helena Kennedy. Paperback. Crease to spine, otherwise very good. v + 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C12698
Keywords: 0719049547, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, employment, glass, ceiling, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, world, Times Higher Education Supplement, Camille Paglia, Marina Warner, bell hooks, Anita Desai, Mary Warnock, Catharine Mackinnon, Mary Daly, Kay Davies, Jane Goodall, Julie Theriot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Jacqueline Rose, Ann Oakley, Marilyn Strathern, Shirley Williams
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Figes, Eva.
Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
(Macmillan, 1982).
Paperback. Very good. 178pp. Order No. NSBK-H14309
Keywords: 0333292103, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, writers, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Fanny Burney, the Brontes, Gothic
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Sweeney, Patricia E.
Biographies of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography
(Santa Barbara, 1990).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A11014
Keywords: 0874360706, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, bibliography, bibliographies
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Stevenson, John and Cook, Chris.
The Slump: Society and Politics During the Depression
(Quartet Books, 1979).
Paperback. Spine creased and covers yellowed, very minimal pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. x + 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A10470
Keywords: 0704332809, slump, Depression, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, 1930s, thirties, unemployment, working class, working-class, classes, enemployed, Communism, Communists, The National Unemployed Workers' Movement, Hunger marches, Fascists, government, polls, general elections
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Coleridge, Lady Georgina, ed.
The Lady's Realm: a Selection from the Monthly Issues: November 1904 to April 1905
(Arrow Books, 1972).
Illustrated. Paperback. Good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C2060
Keywords: 0099067404, Lady's Realm, women's magazines, Britain, British, England, English, history, periodicals, Edwardian
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Clarke, Deborah.
Women at Work: The Essential Guide for the Working Woman
(Element, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A10211
Keywords: 1852301090, women, woman, women's studies, work, working women, women and work, women's work, care-workers, care work, self-employed, part-time temps, sexuality, menopause, men, feminism, feminists
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Ogden, Annegret S. Ogden.
The Great American Housewife: From helpmate to wage earner, 1776-1986
(Greenwood Press, 1986).
Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper, with some pencil annotation on opening pages. xxiiii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C15514
Keywords: 0313247528, American, America, United States, US, United States of America, housewife, housewives, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Victorian, twentieth century, women's work, women and work
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