Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work

ISBN-13: 9783598414756 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 285 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

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.

Spis treści

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Black Washerwoman in Southern Tradition -- From Frontier Activism to Neo-Victorian Domesticity: Mormon Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Technology and Women's Work: The Lives of Working Class Women in Pittsburgh, 1870-1900 -- Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915 -- The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century -- The Manufacture of Housework -- Time Spent in Housework -- Experts and Servants: The National Council on Household Employment and the Decline of Domestic Service in the Twentieth Century -- The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940 -- Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" -- Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service -- Copyright Information -- Index