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1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Labour History |
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Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press)
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: WOMEN IN THE DOMESTIC SPHERE -- 1 The Birth of a New Profession: The Housekeeper and her Status in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2 The Representation of Housework in the Eighteenth-Century Women's Press -- 3 Needlework and the Rights of Women in England at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Governesses of the Royal Family and the Nobility in Great Britain, 1750-1815 -- PART II: WOMEN IN MALE STRONGHOLDS -- 5 The Labour and Servitude of Women in the Highlands of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century -- 6 Women in the Army in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 7 Hospital Nurses in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Service without Responsibility -- 8 Claiming their Place in the Corporate Community: Women's Identity in Eighteenth-Century Towns -- 9 Women Barred from Masonic 'Work': A British Phenomenon -- PART III: WOMEN AND THE CULTURAL SCENE -- 10 The Actress and Eighteenth-Century Ideals of Femininity -- 11 Women in Action: Elizabeth Inchbald, Heroines and Serving Maids in British Comedies of the 1780s and 1790s -- 12 Profession: Siren-The Ambiguous Status of Professional Women Musicians in Eighteenth-Century England -- 13 The Lee Sisters: Eighteenth-Century Commercial Heroines -- 14 Eighteenth-Century Images of Working Women -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Women employees
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Women -- Social conditions
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carré, Jacques
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Revauger, Cecile
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| ISBN |
9781351887359 |
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1351887351 |
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