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.
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