Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780195365009
ISBN-13 : 0195365003
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Book Synopsis Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 by : Ellen Ross Professor of Women's Studies Ramapo College

Download or read book Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 written by Ellen Ross Professor of Women's Studies Ramapo College and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes.


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