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

Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195365009
ISBN-13 : 0195365003
Rating : 4/5 (003 Downloads)

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.


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

Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Ellen Ross Professor of Women's Studies Ramapo College
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-10-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 nationa
Love and Toil
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Ellen Ross
Categories: Motherhood
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The feisty warm-hearted "mum" has long figured as a symbol of the working class in Britain, yet working-class history has emphasized male organizations such as
Historia and Fabula
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Peter G. Bietenholz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Examining a variety of texts ranging from the Ancient Near East to the nineteenth century, this book deals with the inevitable presence of both fact and fiction
Slum Travelers
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Ellen Ross
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ellen Ross has collected impressions from some of the half a million women involved in philanthropy by the 1890s, most of them active in the London slums. The c
At the Breast
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Linda Blum
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-09 - Publisher: Beacon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In our ironic, "postfeminist" age few experiences inspire the kind of passions that breastfeeding does. For advocates, breastfeeding is both the only way to sup