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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

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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: 592
Authors: Ellen Ross
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
Slum Travelers
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Ellen Ross
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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
Historia and Fabula
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Peter G. Bietenholz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: BRILL

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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
At the Breast
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Linda Blum
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-09 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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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