"Just a Housewife": The Rise & Fall of Domesticity in America - Couverture souple

Matthews, Glenna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195059255 ISBN 13 : 9780195059250

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1987

Synopsis

The author shows how the nineteenth 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 responsiblities. But this emphasis meant that women were relegated to the domestic sphere, especially when Darwin's `survival of the fittest' doctrine seemed to indicate that women were physically inferior to men. Ironically, the industrialization of the home in the early twentieth century failed to improve women's lot; on the contrary, it helped lose the home its place of centrality in American culture and produced a terrible dilemma for women by urging them to go into the work place but offering them very little social support for doing so.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Has taught at University of California, Berkeley and Davis

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195059255
• ISBN 13: 9780195059250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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