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Knowing Their Place
Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain
Lucy Delap
278 pages
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19 black and white halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957294-6
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Hardback
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16 June 2011
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- Draws from a wide variety of sources: advice manuals, magazines, novels, cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs
- Illustrated to aid understanding and draw attention to visual/cultural sources
- Sets changes within their historical context and allows for comparative assessments of different periods
Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells the story of lives and labour within twentieth century British homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the interactions of servants and employers along with the intense controversies and emotions they inspired.
Knowing Their Place examines the employment of men and migrant workers, as well as the role of laughter and erotic desire in shaping domestic service. The memory of domestic service and the
role of the past in shaping and mediating the present is examined through heritage and televisual sources, from Upstairs, Downstairs toThe 1900 House. Drawing from advice manuals, magazines, novels, cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs, this fascinating book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Modern history, English literature, anthropology, cultural studies, social geography, gender studies, and women's studies. It points to new directions in cultural history through its engagement in innovative areas such as the history of emotions and cultural memory. Through its attention to the contemporary rise in the employment of domestic workers, Knowing Their Place sets 'modern' Britain in a new and compelling historical
context.Readership: Students and scholars of modern Britain, women's historians, and historians of family history
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Lucy Delap, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, St Catharine's College, Cambridge Lucy Delap is a social and cultural historian with research interests in feminism, class, religion, and gender. Her book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Women's History Network Prize. She co-edited The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (Palgrave 2009), contributed to Feminist Media History (Palgrave 2010), and has published widely on British and American feminism.
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"An ambitious study, which corrects a number of easy assumptions... contains wonderful material and much insight." - Alison Light, Times Literary Supplement "Knowing Their Place is that rare historical monograph that is a pleasure to read from beginning to end. It has the potential to be valuable in different ways at many levels of scholarship: to researchers in the fields of labor history and of womens history, in graduate seminars, and in the undergraduate classroom." - Jamie Bronstein, Journal of British Studies "[a] richly nuanced account ... excellent" - Laura Schwartz, History Workshop Journal
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Introduction
1: Twentieth Century Servants
2: Servant-Keepers and the Management of Servants
3: 'Doing for Oneself': the Evolving Servantless Home
4: Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humour
5: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Spicy': Servants in Pornography and Erotica
6: Heritage Nostalgia: Domestic Service Remembered and Performed
Conclusion
Bibliography
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