Ellen Jordan

The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ellen Jordan's treatment of the expansion of middle-class women's work is perhaps the most comprehensive available and is a valuable complement to existing works on the social and economic history of women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134657476
• Artikelnr.: 42653522

Autorenporträt

Ellen Jordan

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: The question of middle class women's work
Part II: The Constraints of Women's Work Chapter 2: The constraints of
gentility: The seperation of work and home and the emergence of the
male-breadwinner norm Chapter 3: The constraints of feminity: The domestic
ideology Chapter 4: What was 'women's work'? The patriarchal household and
employers' 'knowledge' Part III: Strong-minded women Chapter 5:
Bluestockings, philanthropists and the religious heterodoxy Chapter 6:
Girl's education, governesses, and the ladies' colleges Chapter 7: Female
philanthropy and the middle class nurse Part IV: The Women's Movement
Chapter 8: Redefining Women's Sphere: Confronting the Domestic Ideology
Chapter 9: Redefining Women's Work: Creating a Pull Factor Chapter 10:
Redefining Ladies Work: Creating a Push Factor