History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 4/1, : Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: BERCH, BETTINA,; BLEWETT, MARY H.,; BLOCH, RUTH H.,; BOYDSTON, JEANNE,; BROWNLEE, W. ELLIOT,; BUNKLE, PHILLIDA,; GORDON, JEAN,; HORTON, JAMES OLIVER,; JAMESON, ELIZABETH,; JENSEN, JOAN M.,; KERBER, LINDA K.,; LASS, CAROL,; McARTHUR, JAN,; SCOTT, ANNE FIROR,; WELTER, BARBARA,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 4/1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work -- American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785–1815 -- To Earn Her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence -- The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860 -- Sentimental Womanhood and Domestic Education, 1830–1870 -- Women Shoeworkers and Domestic Ideology: Rural Outwork in Early Nineteenth-Century Essex County -- The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England -- Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks -- Women’s Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850s -- Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History -- Household Values, Women s Work, and Economic Growth 1800–1930 -- American Women and Domestic Consumption, 1800-1920: Four Interpretive Themes -- Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers: True Womanhood in the American West -- Cloth, Butter and Boarders: Women’s Household Production for the Market -- ‘The Sphinx in the Household’: A New Look at the History of Household Workers