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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453130203321

Titolo

Fit work for women / / edited by Sandra Burman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10416-1

1-299-44806-2

1-136-24846-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

BurmanSandra

Disciplina

305.420941

Soggetti

Women - Employment - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1979"--T.p. verso.

Papers presented at a series of interdisciplinary seminars organized by the Women's Studies Committee and held at Oxford University during the 2d term, 1977/78.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

FIT WORK FOR WOMEN; Copyright; Fit Work For Women; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology; 2. A Home from Home - Women's Philanthropic Work in the Nineteenth Century; 3. The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England; 4. Women Cotton Workers and the Suffrage Campaign: The Radical Suffragists in Lancashire, 1893-1914; 5. Militancy and Acquiescence Amongst Women Workers; 6. The Male Appendage - Legal Definitions of Women; 7. The Welfare State and the Needs of the Dependent Family

8. Domestic Labour and the HouseholdName Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a collection of papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women: not only on women's wage work, but also on activities either not defined as work or accorded an ambiguous status. It discusses the formation of the ideology of domesticity, philanthropy and its effects on official policy and on women, landladies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, working-class radical suffragists, and Labour Party



and trade union attitudes to feminists.Modern society of 1979, when the book was first published, is