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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Read, Anthony & Fisher, David.
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
(Jonathan Cape, 1997).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, overall good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxv + 565pp. Order No. NSBK-A8691
Keywords: 0224039563, India, Indian, history, independence, Indian independence, Empire, imperial, imperialism, British Empire, Raj, politics, Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Far East, Far Eastern
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Kirkby, Diane.
The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
(CUP, 1991).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. xxvi + 254pp. Order No. NSBK-A12390
Keywords: 0521391024, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Australia, Australian, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, writers, writing, labour reformer, labor, Alice Henry, social welfare
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Garber, Linda, ed.
Tilting the Tower:
(Routledge, 1984).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C13687
Keywords: 0415908418, lesbians, lesbianism, queer, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Abrams, Lynn & Harvey, Elizabeth, eds.
Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
(Duke UP, 1997).
Paperback. Small remainder mark to lower edge, otherwise very good. x + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C13214
Keywords: 0822318962, Germans, German, German history, power, politics, gender relations, Europe, European, female body, abortion, German feminism, Weimar Republic, Nazism, Third Reich, marriage, lesbians, lesbianism
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Curran, James.
The Future of the Left:
(Polity Press, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A12737
Keywords: 0745600042, the left, politics, political, politicians, government, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 30: Number 3
(Feminist Studies, Fall 2004).
pp 561-807. Journal. Fine. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C10634
Keywords: journals, feminism, feminist, women's studies, women, woman, gender, twentieth century, 20th
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Summerfield, Penny.
Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict
(Croom Helm, 1984).
Classic work of women's history, now very scarce. Hardback. Ex library but good+ in faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. ix + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-C1783
Keywords: 0709923171, Second World War, World War II, munitions, women's work, patriarchy, factory, history, Britain, British, England, English
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Barnett, Anthony.
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament Waged Its Falklands War
(Allison and Busby, 1982).
Paperback. Good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A12028
Keywords: 0850314933, Falklands, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, wars, warfare
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West, Jackie, ed.
Work, Women and the Labour Market:
(RKP, 1982).
Paperback. Spine soiled, otherwise good. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-C795
Keywords: 0710009704, work, women, labour market, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, employment, women's work, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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