Laura Schwartz

Feminism and the Servant Problem

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals a hidden history of women's suffrage from the perspectives of working-class women employed as domestic servants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471336
• ISBN-10: 1108471331
• Artikelnr.: 55536836

Autorenporträt

Laura Schwartz is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on the history of British feminism, and is the author of A Serious Endeavour: Gender Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011 (2011) and Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women's Emancipation, England 1830-1914 (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Whose problem was the 'servant problem'?
1. The 'servant problem' and the suffrage home
2. Servants in the suffrage movement
3. The housework problem
4. Domestic labour and the feminist work ethic
5. The domestic workers' union of Great Britain and Ireland
6. Servants and co-operative housekeeping
Conclusion
Index.