Struggle and Suffrage in Halifax: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
In: Struggle and Suffrage Ser.
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Child Labour and Girls at Work -- Girls at Work in the Card-Making Industry -- Girls at Work in the Textile Mills -- Girls at Work in the Mines -- Chapter Two: An Unequal Education -- The Early Years -- 'A cruel injustice.' The Schools Inquiry Commission 1867-68 -- The Focus on Domestic Science -- Further Education: the Halifax girls 'not burdened with a serious education' -- Chapter Three: Women's Health and Domestic Lives -- Women's Chores in the Home -- Courtship and Marriage -- Sexual Abuse and Harassment -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Birth Control -- Chapter Four: Women in Employment -- What Did Middle-Class Women Do? -- Working-Class Women and Their Jobs -- Women in Domestic Service -- Women at Work in the Mills, Factories and Engineering -- The Halifax Building Society: 'No Female Shall Be Admitted to Any Office Therein' -- Chapter Five: Chartism, Radical Politics, and Votes for Women -- Halifax Women and Nineteenth Century Radical Politics -- The Halifax Suffragettes -- Halifax Suffragettes and the Boycott of the Census -- Bibliography -- Citations -- Back Cover.