Fit work for women / edited by Sandra Burman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burman, Sandra.

University of Oxford. Women's Studies Committee.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--Congresses.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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 HouseholdName Index; Subject Index

Notes:

"First published in 1979"--T.p. verso.

Papers presented at a series of interdisciplinary seminars organized by the Women's Studies Committee and held at Oxford University during the 2d term, 1977/78.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24845-5

0-203-10416-1

1-299-44806-2

1-136-24846-3

9780203104163

OCLC:

836402576