Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Northumberland
Author:   Jane Long
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Edition:   Thumb Indexed ed.
Volume:   v. 10
ISBN:  

9780861932405


Pages:   253
Publication Date:   06 May 1999
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Northumberland


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Author:   Jane Long
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Royal Historical Society
Edition:   Thumb Indexed ed.
Volume:   v. 10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780861932405


ISBN 10:   0861932404
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   06 May 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

"Constructing femininity - women, work and poverty; invading bodies - gender and danger in Newcastle; ""you are forced to do something for a living"" - women and white-lead work; ""a fine race of women"" - Northumbrian bondagers; regulating poverty, regulating gender - the administration of poor relief; being ""re-made"" and ""making do"" - working-class women and philanthropy; conclusion - reading the future."

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Valuable, substantial and well-written. WOMEN'S HISTORY REVIEW


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