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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11356826.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-247) and index.".
- catalog description "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'.".
- catalog extent "xv, 261 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415189519 (hardbound)".
- catalog isPartOf "Routledge research in gender and history ; 1".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "331.4/0941/09034 21".
- catalog subject "Feminism Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "HD6135 .J667 1999".
- catalog subject "Women Employment Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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'.".
- catalog title "The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain / Ellen Jordan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".