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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burman, Sandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
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.