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 | #1448849 in Books |  Glenna Matthews |  1989-05-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.61 x5.38l,.89 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

 | Just a Housewife The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Ideas|By cinderella|I found it interesting to read the history of housewives and now I understand why we view housewives as we do now in our society. We have more freedoms as women but not honored as "just a housewife". It was interesting to read how being a housewife was once highly valued in the early nineteenth century and to see what difficult work it was (such|From Library Journal|A sweeping survey of the changing image and perception of the housewife in America from colonial times to the present, this groundbreaking book provides an essential historical backdrop to Betty Friedan's classic The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Housewives constitute a large section of the population, yet they have received very little attention, let alone respect. Glenna Matthews, who herself spent many years as "just a housewife" before becoming a scholar of American history, sets out to redress this imbalance.
While the male world of work has always received the most respect, Matthews maintains that widespread reverence for the home prevailed in the nineteenth century. The early stages of industrializ...

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