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"Just a Housewife" : The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America.
Title:
"Just a Housewife" : The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America.
Author:
Matthews, Glenna.
ISBN:
9780199728909
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents:
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 -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
The author shows how the 19th century's "cult of domesticity" had invested the home with great importance - as the centre of republican virtue, as the source of religious values and as an area of heady female responsibilities.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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