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Matthews Glenna |
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Titolo |
"Just a housewife" : the rise and fall of domesticity in America / / Glenna Matthews |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-972890-9 |
1-280-52407-3 |
9786610524075 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - United States - Social conditions |
Housewives - United States - History - 19th century |
Housewives - United States - History - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography: p. 227-262 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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