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The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain / / Ellen Jordan
| The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain / / Ellen Jordan |
| Autore | Jordan Ellen <1938, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.4/0941/09034 |
| Collana | Routledge research in gender and history |
| Soggetto topico |
Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Feminism - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women - Great Britain - Social conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-65748-X
1-280-33685-4 9786610336852 0-203-02110-X 0-203-15927-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The question of middle-class women's work; Alternative explanations; Demographic determinates; Economic determinates; The 'linguistic turn'; Agents of change; Argument of the book; The constraints on women's work; The constraints of gentility: the separation of work and home and the breadwinner norm; The family economy; The separation of work and home; The aspiration to gentility; The upper middle class; The lower middle class; The constraints of femininity: the domestic ideology
Separate spheresThe Angel in the House; Economic insecurity; What was 'women's work'? The patriarchal household and employers' 'knowledge'; Patriarchal conditions; The established occupations; The new occupations; Changes after 1860; Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy; Borderlands; Bluestockings and Evangelicals; The bluestocking syllogism and the intellectual woman; 'Something to do' and philanthropy; Consolidation; Determining girls' education: governesses and the ladies' colleges; The bluestocking syllogism and girls' education; Employment in the arts; Governesses The ladies' collegesTransforming nursing: female philanthropy and the middle-class nurse; The nursing sisterhoods; The Nightingale effect; The move to the hospitals; Outcomes and implications; The Women's Movement; Redefining 'women's sphere': confronting the domestic ideology; Women's rights; The birth of the Women's Movement; Anna Jameson and the gospel of work; Langham Place; Debates about women; Redefining 'women's work': creating a 'pull factor'; The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women; The Society and the trades; Clerical work; Wider influence; Diffusion of the practice A change of focusRedefining 'ladies' work': creating a 'push factor'; Emily Davies; Gaining official recognition; Opening university degrees; Medical education; The high schools; Education for employment; Women and the professions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454970703321 |
Jordan Ellen <1938, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain / / Ellen Jordan
| The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain / / Ellen Jordan |
| Autore | Jordan Ellen <1938, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.4/0941/09034 |
| Collana | Routledge research in gender and history |
| Soggetto topico |
Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Feminism - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women - Great Britain - Social conditions |
| ISBN |
1-134-65747-1
1-134-65748-X 1-280-33685-4 9786610336852 0-203-02110-X 0-203-15927-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The question of middle-class women's work; Alternative explanations; Demographic determinates; Economic determinates; The 'linguistic turn'; Agents of change; Argument of the book; The constraints on women's work; The constraints of gentility: the separation of work and home and the breadwinner norm; The family economy; The separation of work and home; The aspiration to gentility; The upper middle class; The lower middle class; The constraints of femininity: the domestic ideology
Separate spheresThe Angel in the House; Economic insecurity; What was 'women's work'? The patriarchal household and employers' 'knowledge'; Patriarchal conditions; The established occupations; The new occupations; Changes after 1860; Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy; Borderlands; Bluestockings and Evangelicals; The bluestocking syllogism and the intellectual woman; 'Something to do' and philanthropy; Consolidation; Determining girls' education: governesses and the ladies' colleges; The bluestocking syllogism and girls' education; Employment in the arts; Governesses The ladies' collegesTransforming nursing: female philanthropy and the middle-class nurse; The nursing sisterhoods; The Nightingale effect; The move to the hospitals; Outcomes and implications; The Women's Movement; Redefining 'women's sphere': confronting the domestic ideology; Women's rights; The birth of the Women's Movement; Anna Jameson and the gospel of work; Langham Place; Debates about women; Redefining 'women's work': creating a 'pull factor'; The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women; The Society and the trades; Clerical work; Wider influence; Diffusion of the practice A change of focusRedefining 'ladies' work': creating a 'push factor'; Emily Davies; Gaining official recognition; Opening university degrees; Medical education; The high schools; Education for employment; Women and the professions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778862303321 |
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Jordan Ellen <1938, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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