Index:Co-operative housekeeping.djvu

Title Co-operative Housekeeping, Romance in Domestic Economy
Author Melusina Fay Peirce
Year 1870
Publisher John Ross and Company
Location Edinburgh
Source djvu
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CONTENTS.

  1. CHAPTER I.
  2. The Young American Housekeeper,
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    1
  3. The Old Fashioned Housekeeper,
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    2
  4. The Influence of the Age,
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    3
  5. The Problem of the Hour,
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    4
  6. The Housewife in History,
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    5
  7. Society as Classified by Political Economy,
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    8
  8. Place of the Historical Housewife in Political Economy
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    9
  9. Feminine Producers of To-day,
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    9
  10. Feminine Consumers of To-day,
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    10
  11. Men's Prejudices on this Subject,
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    12
  12. State of Society in Europe,
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    13
  13. The Retail Trade Woman's Sphere,
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    18
  14. The Rochdale Pioneers,
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    21
  15. The Weak Side of Co-operation,
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    22
  16. CHAPTER II.
  17. Preliminaries of Co-operating Housekeeping,
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    23
  18. The Author's Attempt at a Constitution,
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    24
  19. Rules of Association, with remarks upon them,
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    24
  20. Natural Divisions of Co-operative Housekeeping,
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    38
  21. The Laundry and Sewing-room,
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    38
  22. Meals and Health of the Workwomen,
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    40
  23. Business and Working Hours,
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    41
  24. Stock in Co-operative Clothing House,
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    42
  25. Officers and Employées in the Sewing-room,
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    43
  26. The Costume Artist,
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    44
  27. How Dress-making may become a Fine Art,
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    46
  28. The Co-operative Kitchen,
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    47
  29. Organizing Committee's Report,
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    50
  30. CHAPTER III.
  31. Probable Effects of Co-operation on the Retail Trade,
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    52
  32. Probable Effects on Agriculture,
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    55
  33. Where Co-operative Housekeeping will suit best,
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    59
  34. The Servants,
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    61
  35. Reform of the Mistresses,
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    63
  36. The Present Housekeepers,
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    65
  37. The Co-operative Housekeepers,
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    65
  38. Effects upon Unskilled Housekeepers,
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    68
  39. Effects upon Unmarried Women,
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    69
  40. Influences that Determine Woman's Present Development,
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    69
  41. Obstacles to Woman's Independence,
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    71
  42. How Independence may be Attained,
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    71
  43. CHAPTER IV.
  44. Co-operation would free Woman's Intellectual and Artistic Energies: A Lost Genius,
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    73
  45. Bad Economy of Present Feminine Standard,
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    75
  46. Woman unable to assert her Individuality,
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    76
  47. Doctors versus Doctresses,
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    77
  48. The Sphinx must Speak for Herself,
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    80
  49. The Primal Feminine Necessity,
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    82
  50. The Effects of Combination,
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    86
  51. Womanhood Suffrage,
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    87
  52. Public Morals the Care of the Senatus Matronum
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    91
  53. CHAPTER V.
  54. Womanhood Suffrage a Moral, not a Controlling Force,
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    92
  55. Law
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    94
  56. Charity: Health,
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    96
  57. Education,
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    98
  58. The Press,
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    102
  59. Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture,
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    103
  60. Horticulture,
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    105
  61. Music and the Drama,
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    106
  62. Society Reformed: its Religious Aspect,
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    108
  63. Man and Woman Face to Face,
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    112
  64. War : its Effects on Woman,
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    113
  65. Two Final Considerations,
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    114
  66. Man and Woman Intellectually and Morally Different,
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    115
  67. Conclusion,
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    117