Fit work for women [electronic resource] / edited by Sandra Burman.

First published in 1979--T.p. verso.

Papers presented at a series of interdisciplinary seminars organized by the Women's Studies Committee and held at Oxford University during the 2d term, 1977/78.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. The early formation of Victorian domestic ideology / Catherine Hall -- 2. A home from home : women's philanthropic work in the nineteenth century / Anne Summers -- 3. The separation of home and work? Landladies and lodgers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England / Leonore Davidoff -- 4. Women cotton workers and the suffrage campaign : the radical suffragists in Lancashire, 1893-1914 / Jill Liddington -- 5. Militancy and acquiescence amongst women workers / Kate Purcell -- 6. The male appendage : legal definitions of women / Katherine O'Donovan -- 7. The welfare state and the needs of the dependent family / Mary McIntosh -- 8. Domestic labour and the household / Maureen M. Mackintosh.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.