This book is not designed, in the 21st Century, to be an accurate depiction of women, housewives, or any aspect of American family life today. The publisher today does not claim that it represents women, housewives, or American family life when it was first printed almost a hundred years ago. It is a unique look at a time, and at a perspective. In order to see how the world has changed (most would say "progressed", some would say "digressed.") we have to understand how people looked at different aspects of society those many decades ago. Some of the ideas may seems strange, but when you consider that there are people alive today who lived in these times, and almost everyone knows - or knew - someone from this era, we are not as far removed from it as sometimes we like to think. Chapter I Introductory II The Nature Of "Nervousness" III Types Of Housewife Predisposed To Nervousness IV The Housework And The Home As Factors In The Neurosis V Reaction To The Disagreeable VI Poverty And Its Psychical Results VII The Housewife And Her Husband VIII The Housewife And Her Household Conflicts IX The Symptoms As Weapons Against The Husband X Histories Of Some Severe Cases XI Other Typical Cases XII Treatment Of The Individual Cases XIII The Future Of Woman, The Home, And Marriage
The Nervous Housewife is surely a phenomenon of the present-day American home. In greater or less degree she is in every man's home; nor is she alone the rich Housewife with too little to do, for though riches do not protect, poverty predisposes, and the poor Housewife is far more frequently the victim of this disease of occupation. Every practicing physician, every hospital clinic, finds her a problem, evoking pity, concern, exasperation, and despair.
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