Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415624183
,
9781136248467
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Series
Content:
This collection presents papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women. Aiding understanding of the manifestations of women's roles today, the author here examines their origins and early development
Note:
Intro -- FIT WORK FOR WOMEN -- Copyright -- Fit Work For Women -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Early Formation of Victorian Domestic Ideology -- 2. A Home from Home - Women's Philanthropic Work in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England -- 4. Women Cotton Workers and the Suffrage Campaign: The Radical Suffragists in Lancashire, 1893-1914 -- 5. Militancy and Acquiescence Amongst Women Workers -- 6. The Male Appendage - Legal Definitions of Women -- 7. The Welfare State and the Needs of the Dependent Family -- 8. Domestic Labour and the Household -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Burman, Sandra Fit Work for Women Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415624183
Language:
English
Keywords:
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