Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750: Life and work in the London household (Women And Men In History) [1 ed.] 0582312086, 9780582312081

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
The historical importance of domestic service
Historiographical outlines
Principal sources
Structure of the book
2. Metropolitan service: the London context
London's economy
Structures of London domestic service
Useful definitions
Conclusion
3. Service, mastery and authority
Introduction
Household discipline
Character and employment
Conclusion
4. Household relations
Introduction
Privacy and the family
Servants and spatial segregation
Proximity to the person
Sexual relations between household members
Departure from the household
Conclusion
5. Domestic service as work
Introduction to the meaning of work
Housewifery and the drudgery of service
Domestic service in retailing households
Idle luxury
Conclusion
6. Wages and remuneration
Introduction
The importance of money
Non-wage earnings
Conclusion
7. Conclusion
Appendix I Bibliographical essay
General domestic service
Domestic service in london
European domestic service
Domestic service in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Service, slavery and patriarchy
Gendered work and wages
Sources for London domestic service
Index
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DOMESTIC SERVICE AND GENDER 1660-1750

WOMEN

A N D M E N IN

HISTORY

This series, published lor students, scholars and interested genera! readers, will tackle themes in gender history from the early mix1ici.nl period through to tilt present Hay. Gendrr issues are now an integral pan of alt History courses and yet many traditional texts do not reflect this change. Much exciting work is now being done to redress the gender im!>atances of the past, and we hope that those hooks will make their own substantial contribution to thai process. This is an open-ended scries, which means that many new tides can l>c included. We bope that these will Iroth synthosise and shape future developments in gender studies. The General Editors of the series are Patricia

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(University of Southampton) tor the

medieval period; 1'amsta Sbarpi (University of Bristol) for the early modern period; and Prnny Svmrnafidtl [University of Lancaster] lor the modem period, Margurtt Walsh (Unwewity of Nottingham) was the Founding IJ.!itor of the series. Books already published in the series include; lnt]ierial Women ill BynanthtBi 1025

12(14: Power, Patronage and Ideology

Barbara Hill Masculinity m Medieval Europe DM. Hadlry (at.) Widowhood in Medieval and Karl; Modern Europe Sandw (jnw//c ami Lyndon Warner Itikl Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy Judith ('.. Hrou.it and Rabat C. Dam (edt) Gentler, Church ;utd State in Early Modern Germany: lissays by Merry E. WfestlCf Mirrv ft. Wiesmir Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex arid Marriage likiaheth W. Fyster Kttgfoh Masculinities Ifr&tJ IttOl) Tart Hikhaxk and MkhOt (Mm Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century Iwndou; Prostitution in the Metropofts 1730 'l