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Book Barmaids

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane Kirkby
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1997-11-10
  • ISBN : 9780521568685
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Barmaids written by Diane Kirkby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book is a mixture of cultural and labour history which traces the role of barmaids and Australian drinking culture.

Book Women as Barmaids

Download or read book Women as Barmaids written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Employment of Women

Download or read book The Employment of Women written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barmaids

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  • Author : National British Women's Total Abstinence Union
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 18 pages

Download or read book Barmaids written by National British Women's Total Abstinence Union and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Girls

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  • Author : Katherine Mullin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-05
  • ISBN : 0191037834
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Working Girls written by Katherine Mullin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new 'gin palaces' of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) and liberated (more or less) from the protection and constraints of home and family, shop-girls, barmaids, typists, and telegraphists became mass media sensations. They energised a wide range of late-Victorian and Modernist fiction. This study will bring late-Victorian and Modernist British writers into intimate conversation with a substantial new archive of ephemeral sources often regarded as remote from high art and its concerns: popular fiction; music hall and musical comedy; beauty pageants and fairground exhibitions; visual art and early film; careers manuals; magazine and periodical journalism; moral reform crusades, Royal Commissions, and attempts at protective legislation. Working Girls argues that these seductive yet perilous young women helped writers negotiate anxieties about the state of literary culture in the United Kingdom. Crucially, they preoccupy novelists who were themselves beleaguered by anxieties over cultural capital, the shifting pressures of the literary marketplace, or controversies about the morality of fiction (often leading to the threat of censorship). In articulating questions about sexual integrity, Working Girls articulate often submerged questions about textual integrity and the role of the modern novel.

Book The Flaming Sword

Download or read book The Flaming Sword written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

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  • Author : Victoria. Parliament
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 858 pages

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Victoria. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debates

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  • Author : South Australia. Parliament. House of Assembly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book Debates written by South Australia. Parliament. House of Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Moore

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  • Author : Ann Heilmann
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2014-08-06
  • ISBN : 1611494338
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book George Moore written by Ann Heilmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nearly every major figure of his era,” writes his biographer Adrian Frazier, “worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his impression from, or left it on, George Moore.” The Anglo-Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) espoused multiple identities. An agent provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often deliberately controversial, the personality at the core of this book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world. Moore’s key role—as observer-participant and as satirist—within many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moore’s work can serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary aesthetics both through innovative scholarly readings of Moore’s work and through illustrative case studies of Moore’s collaborative practice by making available, for the first time, two manuscript plays he co-authored with Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in 1894. It is this collaborative practice in conjunction with his cosmopolitan outlook that turned Moore into a key player in the fin-de-siècle formation of an international aesthetic community. This book explores the full range of Moore’s collaborations and cultural encounters: from 1870s Paris art exhibitions to turn-of-the-century Dublin and London; from gossip to the culture of the barmaid; from the worship of Balzac to the fraught engagement with Yeats; from music to Celtic cultural translation. Moore’s reputation as a collaborator with the most significant artistic individuals of his time in Britain, Ireland and France in particular, but also in Europe more widely, provides a rich exposition of modes of exchange and influence in the period, and a unique and distinctive perspective on Moore himself.

Book Eva Gore Booth

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  • Author : Sonja Tiernan
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-18
  • ISBN : 1847795099
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Eva Gore Booth written by Sonja Tiernan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is traced in this book. During one impressive campaign Gore-Booth orchestrated the defeat of Winston Churchill. Gore-Booth published volumes of poetry, philosophical prose and plays, becoming a respected and prolific author of her time and part of W.B. Yeats’ literary circle. The story of Gore-Booth’s life is captivating. Her close bond with her sister, an iconic Irish nationalist, provides a new insight into Countess Markievicz’s personal life. Gore-Booth’s life story vividly traces her experiences of issues such as militant pacifism during the Great War, the case for the reprieve of Roger Casement’s death sentence, sexual equality in the workplace and the struggle for Irish independence.

Book Votes   Proceedings

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  • Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1516 pages

Download or read book Votes Proceedings written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

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  • Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1882
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debates in the House of Assembly

Download or read book Debates in the House of Assembly written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Western Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dishing It Out

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  • Author : Dorothy Cobble
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1992-09
  • ISBN : 9780252061868
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Dishing It Out written by Dorothy Cobble and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back when SOS or Adam and Eve on a raft were things to order if you were hungry but a little short on time and money, nearly one-fourth of all waitresses belonged to unions. By the time their movement peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, the women had developed a distinctive form of working-class feminism, simultaneously pushing for equal rights and pay and affirming their need for special protections. Dorothy Sue Cobble shows how sexual and racial segregation persisted in wait work, but she rejects the idea that this was caused by employers' actions or the exclusionary policies of male trade unionists. Dishing It Out contends that the success of waitress unionism was due to several factors: waitresses, for the most part, had nontraditional family backgrounds, and most were primary wage-earners. Their close-knit occupational community and sex-separate union encouraged female assertiveness and a decidedly unromantic view of men and marriage. Cobble skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. The result is a book that will expand our understanding of feminism and unionism by including the gender conscious perspectives of working women.