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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Rowbotham, Sheila.
A New World for Women: Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist
(Pluto, 2nd impress., 1978).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers yellowed and lightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C1584
Keywords: 0904383547, socialism, feminism, Stella Browne, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Radford, Matthew.
Matthew Radford: April/May 1993. Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, and The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
(Becker Graphics Inc, 1993).
Co-curators William M. Chambers and Thomas Zollner. Catalogue. Very good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11188
Keywords: art, artists, painters, paintings, history, 20th, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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Summerhayes, Martha.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
(Nebraska UP, 1979).
Introduction by Dan L. Thrapp. Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 397pp. Order No. NSBK-C12708
Keywords: 0803291051, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, army, military, soldiers, wives, wife
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Deacon, Bob, et al.
The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy, Past, Present and Future
(Sage, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A9468
Keywords: 0803984391, social policy, history, Europe, Eastern Europe, East Europe, European, Soviet Union, communism, communist, market economy, democracy, welfare, childcare, working women, unemployed, poor, twentieth century, 20th
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Morrow, John.
Young England: The New Generation: a Selection of Primary Texts
(Leicester UP, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in laminated boards. xii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A3717
Keywords: 0718501454, Young England, 1840s, Benjamin Disraeli, The Condition of England, politics, society, George Smythe, Victorian, nineteenth century, England, English, Britain, British, Lord John Manners, Tory, Toryism, Tories, philosophy, history, ideas, Conservatism, Conservatives, Conservative, aristocracy, ruling classes
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Pollard, Andrew; Purvis, June; Walford, G., eds.
Education, Training and the New Vocationalism: Experience and Policy
(Open UP, 1988).
Hardback. Very good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A15692
Keywords: 9780335158454, education, training, vocational education
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McCall's Needlework and Crafts Magazine, .
McCall's New Book of Country Needlecrafts:
(W.H. Allen, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-J13503
Keywords: 0491033931, needework, crafts, sewing, seamstress, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, stitches, needlecrafts
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Jones, Larry Eugene & Retallack, James, eds.
Elections, Mass Politics, & Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
(CUP, 1992).
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. viii + 430pp. Order No. NSBK-A3938
Keywords: 0521418461, election, politics, political, Germany, German history, twentieth century, gender, Publications of the German Historical Institute, government
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Chamberlain, M. E.
The New Imperialism:
(The Historical Association, 1970).
Historical Association [G.73]. Booklet. Covers browned, otherwise good. 46pp. Order No. NSBK-A9802
Keywords: 0852780192, imperial, Empire, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, history, Historical Association, Europe, European, booklet
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