History of women in the United States. 4. Part 1, Domestic ideology and domestic work : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 4/1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich : K. G Saur, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays on the conflict between ideology and actuality in women's domestic lives, throughout the history of the United States. This text also explores the content of domestic labour and domestic production, for both the mistress and female servant of a household.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work

American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785-1815 / BLOCH, RUTH H.

To Earn Her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence / BOYDSTON, JEANNE

The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860 / WELTER, BARBARA

Sentimental Womanhood and Domestic Education, 1830-1870 / BUNKLE, PHILLIDA

Women Shoeworkers and Domestic Ideology: Rural Outwork in Early Nineteenth-Century Essex County / BLEWETT, MARY H.

The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England / LASS, CAROL

Freedom's Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks / HORTON, JAMES OLIVER

Women's Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850s / SCOTT, ANNE FIROR

Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History / KERBER, LINDA K.

Household Values, Women s Work, and Economic Growth 1800-1930 / BROWNLEE, W. ELLIOT

American Women and Domestic Consumption, 1800-1920: Four Interpretive Themes / GORDON, JEAN / McARTHUR, JAN

Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers: True Womanhood in the American West / JAMESON, ELIZABETH

Cloth, Butter and Boarders: Women's Household Production for the Market / JENSEN, JOAN M.

'The Sphinx in the Household': A New Look at the History of Household Workers / BERCH, BETTINA

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-096885-1

OCLC:

979596361