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.

This collection presents papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women. Aiding understanding of the manifestations of women's roles today, the author here examines their origins and early development.

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 ...

For most women, turning fifty can be a harsh signpost. Our children are leaving home. Weve suffered losses of family and friends. Our parents are aging. Retirement is potentially around the corner. And our bodies are transforming once again, both on the outside and silently within, presenting new and sometimes alarming shifts. Yet the age of fifty may merely be the halfway point in our lives. Now is the time to dig deep inside to find the inspiration to make changes. Now is the time to take charge of the ensuing years and live them with gusto. Women: Fit at Fifty provides the tools to help jump start your way towards a healthier lifestyle. This book is written for all the women out there who know they should do more to stay healthy. It is for women who want to change their behaviors but need a boost to get started. It is for women who have never exercised and mistakenly think it is too late to start. This book is for those of you who have just been told that you need to change your lifestyle to save your health. It is for younger women who one day will be fifty and want to be prepared. It is also for those of you who have strayed from an exercise routine and need to get back. Women: Fit at Fifty is for all of you who are embracing your fifties and want to live a much longer, healthier life.

These volumes provide an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender, with a focus on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains.

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England’s supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the “true” England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn’t fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people’s sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today.