Feminism and the Servant Problem - Class and Domestic Labour in the Women''s Suffrage Movement

Reveals a hidden history of women's suffrage from the perspectives of working-class women employed as domestic servants.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Whose problem was the 'servant problem'?; 1. The 'servant problem' and the suffrage home; 2. Servants in the suffrage movement; 3. The housework problem; 4. Domestic labour and the feminist work ethic; 5. The domestic workers' union of Great Britain and Ireland; 6. Servants and co-operative housekeeping; Conclusion; Index.

About the author

Laura Schwartz is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on the history of British feminism, and is the author of A Serious Endeavour: Gender Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886–2011 (2011) and Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women's Emancipation, England 1830–1914 (2013).

Product details

• Authors: Laura Schwartz, Laura (University of Warwick) Schwartz, Schwartz Laura
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108471336
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47133-6
• No. of pages: 243
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Feminism and feminist theory, Pressure groups & lobbying