Knowing Their Place - Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain

Zusatztext Delap's book, dense with image and insight, helps us to think about these questions - who cleans, cooks, does the washing and childcare, how much are they paid and valued without turning away. Informationen zum Autor Lucy Delap is a social and cultural historian with research interests in feminism, class, religion, and gender. Her book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Women's History Network Prize. She co-edited The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (Palgrave 2009), contributed to Feminist Media History (Palgrave 2010), and has published widely on British and American feminism. Klappentext Knowing Their Place offers a fascinating look at the relationships of antagonism and friendship, disgust and desire, that marked domestic service in twentieth century Britain. Zusammenfassung Knowing Their Place offers a fascinating look at the relationships of antagonism and friendship, disgust and desire, that marked domestic service in twentieth century Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Twentieth Century Servants 2: Servant-Keepers and the Management of Servants 3: 'Doing for Oneself': the Evolving Servantless Home 4: Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humour 5: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Spicy': Servants in Pornography and Erotica 6: Heritage Nostalgia: Domestic Service Remembered and Performed Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Delap, Lucy (Fellow and Director of Studies in History Delap, Delap Lucy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199572946
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957294-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General