| Description |
xv,261 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge research in gender and history ; 1 |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 1
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Introduction. 1. The question of middle-class women's work -- Pt. II. The constraints on women's work. 2. The constraints of gentility: the separation of work and home and the breadwinner norm. 3. The constraints of femininity: the domestic ideology. 4. What was 'women's work'? The patriarchal household and employers' 'knowledge' -- Pt. III. Strong-minded women. 5. Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy. 6. Determining girls' education: governesses and the ladies' colleges. 7. Transforming nursing: female philanthropy and the middle-class nurse -- Pt. IV. The Women's Movement. 8. Redefining 'women's sphere': confronting the domestic ideology. 9. Redefining 'women's work': creating a 'pull factor'. 10. Redefining 'ladies' work': creating a 'push factor' |
| Summary |
"In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employment open to young women in Britain was in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil service, clerical work and hairdressing, or areas previously restricted to older women like nursing, retail work and primary school teaching. This book examines the reasons for this change."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p230-247. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 230-247. - Includes index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
98051633 |
| ISBN |
0415189519 |
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