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The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain /
Ellen Jordan's treatment of the expansion of middle-class women's work is perhaps the most comprehensive available and is a valuable complement to existing works on the social and economic history of women.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in gender and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part PART I Introduction
- chapter 1 The question of middle-class women's work
- part Part II THECONSTRAINTSONWOMEN ' SWORK
- chapter 2 The constraints of gentility: the separation of work and home and the breadwinner norm
- The seperation of work and home and the emergence of the male breadwinner norm
- chapter 3 The constraints of femininity
- The domestic ideology
- chapter 4 What was 'women's work'?
- The patriarchal household and employers' 'knowledge'
- chapter PartIIISTRONG -M INDEDWOMEN
- chapter 5 Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy
- chapter 6 Determining girls' education
- Governesses and the ladies' colleges
- chapter 7 Transforming nursing: female philanthropy and the middle-class nurse
- Female philanthropy and the middle class nurse
- part PART I V The Women's Movement
- chapter 8 Redefining 'women's sphere'
- Confronting the domestic ideology
- chapter 9 Redefining 'women's work'
- Creating a 'pull factor'
- chapter 10 Redefining 'ladies' work'
- Creating a 'push factor'.