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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz

Paperback

General ParentingWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0465047327
ISBN13: 9780465047321
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Mar 11 1985
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern conveniences--washing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cotton--seemed at first to offer working-class women middle-class standards of comfort. Over time, however, it became clear that these gadgets and gizmos mainly replaced work previously conducted by men, children, and servants. Instead of living lives of leisure, middle-class women found themselves struggling to keep up with ever higher standards of cleanliness.

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