Cited by T. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
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'conceptions of “women’s work” carried with them long-standing expectations around women’s inherent capacities as (unpaid) affective laborers. [note: 'On the emotional demands placed on women workers at this time, see Lucy Delap, Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2011); Christine Grandy, “Paying for Love: Women’s Work and Love in Popular Film in Interwar Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 3 (September 2010): 483–507; Selina Todd, “Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain,1900–1950,” Past and Present 203, no. 1 (May 2009): 181–204; Judy Giles, The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Oxford, 2004). On pet-keeping and sentimentality during the nineteenth century, see, for example, Kete, The Beast in the Boudoir, chap. 4, and Howell, At Home and Astray, chap. 5.']' (293)

'references to laundry work and child supervision, gesturing to duties traditionally reserved for female rather than male servants, highlight an increasing ambiguity in the gender roles that carers for dogs were expected to fulfill. The very identification of lower-status kennelmen as men could prevent them from adapting to the changing needs of middle- and upper-class dog breeding households. [note: 'Delap, Knowing Their Place, 85–86, 161–62.']' (305)

'Kennelmaids embodied many of the contradictory forces experienced by young women entering domestic employment at this time. [note: 'Delap, Knowing Their Place, 11–22, 63–66; Todd, “Domestic Service and Class Relations.”']' (305)

'In contrast with most service roles, the position of kennelmaid was portrayed asone that allowed women to enjoy the healthy countryside environment promotedby domestic-science reformers while gaining skills and experience in dog keeping and breeding. Like canine nurses, they were consistently depicted as “educated” girls: Carine Cadby, a kennelmaid writing in the Royal Magazine, portrayed herself as not simply as a hard-working subordinate to her mistress but almost her equal in matters pertaining to dogs. [note: 'Carine Cadby, “A Day in the Life of a Kennel-Maid,” Royal Magazine, Autumn 1910, 43–45, at 45; “Our London Correspondence,” Manchester Guardian, 12 May 1908, 6. On efforts to promote service work as a viable career for upper-middle-class women at this time, see Delap, Knowing Their Place,105–8.']' (306)