Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
by Matthews, Glenna
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195038592
- ISBN 13
- 9780195038590
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. "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 responsibilities. 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." CONDITION Red bds with Black cloth spine (clean with sharp cnrs) pp xvii 281. Crisp and unread copy, DJ has very slight shelf wear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13696
- Title
- Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
- Author
- Matthews, Glenna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195038592
- ISBN 13
- 9780195038590
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women & Feminism;
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