Fit Work for Women (Routledge Library Editions: Women's History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415752477 ISBN 13: 9780415752473

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415752477
• ISBN 13: 9780415752473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Burman Sandra