Format:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
ISBN:
9780195059250
Content:
Housewives constitute a large section of the population, yet they have received very little attention, let alone respect. Glenna Matthews, who herself spent many years as ""just a housewife"" before becoming a scholar of American history, sets out to redress this imbalance. While the male world of work has always received the most respect, Matthews maintains that widespread reverence for the home prevailed in the nineteenth century. The early stages of industrialization made possible a strong tradition of cooking, baking, and sewing that gave women greatsatisfaction and a place in the worl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE: The Emergence of a New Ideology""; ""TWO: The Golden Age of Domesticity""; ""THREE: Domestic Feminism and the World Outside the Home""; ""FOUR: Toward an Industrialized Home""; ""FIVE: Darwinism and Domesticity: The Impact of Evolutionary Theory on the Status of the Home""; ""SIX: The Housewife and the Home Economist""; ""SEVEN: Domesticity and the Culture of Consumption""; ""EIGHT: Naming the Problem""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""
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""O""""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199728909
Additional Edition:
Print version ""Just a Housewife"" : The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Language:
English
Keywords:
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