| Description |
x, 406 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Open University set book |
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Open University set book.
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| Contents |
Part one : The historical separation of home and workplace -- The butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker : the shop and the family in the industrial revolution / Catherine Hall -- The home turned upside down? The working-class family in cotton textiles 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall -- Women's work in nineteenth-century London : a study of the years 1820-50 / Sally Alexander -- Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan Scott and Louise Tilly -- The "family wage" / Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh -- Part two : Employment and training -- The need for women's labour in the First World War / Gail Braybon -- Women as a reserve army of labour : a note on recent British experience / IIrene Brugegel -- Typing our way to freedom : is it true that new office technology can liberate women? / Janine Morgall -- Feminism and science / Rita Arditti -- The state and training programmes for women / Ann Wickham -- Part three : The domestic sphere -- The unnatural family / Felicity Edholm -- Monogamy, marriage and economic dependence / Lee Comer -- The violent event / Rebecca and Russell Dobash -- From disregard to disrepute : the position of women in family law / Julia Brophy and Carol Smart -- Technology and changes in the division of labour in the American home / Christine Bose -- Anger and tenderness : the experience of motherhood / Adrienne Rich -- Part four : Constructing gender -- Biological sex differences and sex stereotyping / Else Bartels -- Developmental aspects of gender / Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna -- Female sexuality / Sigmund Freud -- Part five : Feminism and the production of knowledge -- Alleged psychogenic disorders in women - a possible manifestation of sexual prejudice / Jean Lennane and John Lennane -- Competing ideologies of reproduction : medical and maternal perspectives on pregnancy / Hilary Graham and Ann Oakley -- Rape and the masculine mystique / Diana Russell -- Women in official statistics / Paul Allin and Audrey Hunt -- Making science feminist / Hilary Rose -- "Guardians of the race" or "vampires upon the nation's health? Female sexuality and its regulation in early twentieth-century Britain / Lucy Bland -- Oppressive dichotomies : the nature/culture debate / Penelope Brown and L. Jordanova |
| Analysis |
Women Social conditions |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Families.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Whitelegg, Elizabeth.
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
82184218 |
| ISBN |
0855205172 (cased) |
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0855205180 (paperback) |
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