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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave book cover by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

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Paperback · 288 pages Basic Books · 1985

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More Work For Mother

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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Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Format
Paperback
Published
Mar 11, 1985
ISBN-13
9780465047321
ISBN-10
0465047327
Pages
288
Carton quantity
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