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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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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