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'Just a Housewife': The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America New edition
Glenna Matthews
'Just a Housewife': The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America New edition
Glenna Matthews
The author shows how the 19th 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.
298 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 15, 1989 |
ISBN13 | 9780195059250 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 140 × 217 × 24 mm · 386 g |
Language | English |
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