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Jam Making, Cuthbert Rabbit and Cakes: Redefining Domestic Labour in the Women's Institute, 1915–60

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

Maggie Morgan
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I have discussed elsewhere the role of the British Women's Institute Movement within twentieth-century feminism. This paper will take this argument further by focusing on the way in which the W.I. redefined domestic labour as skilled and thus provided scope for rural women to gain status and validation from their involvement in it. First, however, I want to propose a different perception of the Women's Institute Movement from the more common idea of ‘Jam and Jerusalem’ popular in the 1990s, and describe its activities for those unfamiliar with the Movement.

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Research Article
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Rural History , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1996 , pp. 207 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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