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This book has a dual focus. As its title is meant to suggest, it is a history not just of housework but also of the tools with which that work is done: household technology. Human beings are tool-using animals; indeed, some anthropologists believe that, along with speech,, the ability to use and to …
More Work For Mother
The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
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288 pages
- Release Date
11 March 1985
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Summary
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 the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465047321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465047327 |
| Author: | Ruth Cowan |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 0002nd |
| Release Date: | 11 March 1985 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 150mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Ruth Cowan
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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