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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 th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Women's history ;
v. 9 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 1299448062 9781299448063 9780203104163 0203104161 9781136248450 1136248455 |