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
Price £7.50.
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Stansell, Christine.
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise very good in edgeworn and torn dustwrapper. xiv + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C13258
Keywords: 039451534X, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, class, classes, New York,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, eighteenth century, nineteenth century
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Romero, Patricia W.
E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical
(Yale UP, rpt, 1990).
Paperback. Covers and page edges soiled, otherwise good. xv + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-C397
Keywords: 0300044828, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, Votes for Women, women's rights, women's politics, Pankhurst, Edwardian, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Edwardian Suffragette Postcard, Suffragettes Original.
What! You Think a Man Could Do it as Well?:
(Woman Suffrage Series, unposted).
Bespectacled child reads the Daily Mail. Rear is blank (card has neither been written on nor posted). Postcard. Some wear at edges & corners, rear a little browned with age and slightly marked. Otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-C3711
Keywords: Edwardian, suffragettes, suffragette postcards, England, Britain, Votes for Women, suffrage, English, British, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics
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Leinhauser, Jean and Weiss, Rita.
Weekend Afghans:
(Sterling Publishing Co, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-G12191
Keywords: 0806964863, Afghans, knitting, crocheting, sewing, needlework, stitches, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, craft
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Lovell, Terry.
Consuming Fiction:
(Verso, 1987).
Questions for Feminism. Paperback. Very good. 188pp. Order No. NSBK-C13810
Keywords: 0860918858, consuming fiction, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, eighteenth century, 18th
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
Price £15.00.
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Cunningham, W.
True Womanhood:
(Thomas Y. Crowell, 1896).
Hardback. White leather covers embossed with figure of tree in gold, - slightly soiled, otherwise good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-C13667
Keywords: B000WV7VOK, W. Cunningham, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, True Womanhood, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Drummond, James.
Upstairs to Downstairs: Advice to Servant Girls and Weary Mothers. Extracts from the Magazine of the Onward and Upward Association
(Aberdeen UP, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A13110
Keywords: 0080412041, advice, servant girls, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, mothers, motherhood, maternal
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