'Just a Housewife': The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America: Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America, 1830-1963 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

'Just a Housewife': The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America: Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America, 1830-1963 Book

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.Read More

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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.^L

    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

  • 0195059255
  • 9780195059250
  • Glenna Matthews
  • 15 June 1989
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • New edition
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