Fit Work for Women

ISBN-13: 9780415624183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Sandra Burman

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Sandra Burman