Fit work for women /
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 |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The early formation of Victorian domestic ideology / Catherine Hall
- 2. A home from home : women's philanthropic work in the nineteenth century / Anne Summers
- 3. The separation of home and work? Landladies and lodgers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England / Leonore Davidoff
- 4. Women cotton workers and the suffrage campaign : the radical suffragists in Lancashire, 1893-1914 / Jill Liddington
- 5. Militancy and acquiescence amongst women workers / Kate Purcell
- 6. The male appendage : legal definitions of women / Katherine O'Donovan
- 7. The welfare state and the needs of the dependent family / Mary McIntosh
- 8. Domestic labour and the household / Maureen M. Mackintosh.