Fit work for women
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Fit work for women
(Routledge library editions, . Women's history ; v. 9)
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
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Note
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
Reprint. Originally published: London : Croom Helm, 1979
"This edition first published in 2013. First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 analysed in a discussion of militancy and acquiescence among women wage workers, a look at how and why the legal system reinforces activity specialisation according to gender, and an examination of why both pre-pre-war capitalism and the modern Welfare State have been unable to meet the needs of dependents. This collection reflects the increasing recognition that in order to understand women's roles today, it is necessary to examine not only their current manifestations, but also their origins and early development.
Table of 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
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